Research Project
Researchers: Timothy Dolin (Managed by)
Brief description
This research analyses English syllabuses to establish what was taught as literature in secondary schools in Australia between 1901 and 2001. Its aim is to discover whether different syllabuses differently exploit the authority of the literary to bring together a variety of high-literary, middle-brow, and popular texts, and British and non-British texts, of specific local use to the formation and maintenance of social and cultural subjectivities. The research blends approaches and methods from literary and cultural studies, and innovatively applies techniques of reading history, relational sociology, and literary analysis to nationally significant problems of culture and pedagogy in Australia.