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Literary Hoaxes: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater. I A Brief Survey Psalmanaazaar. Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704) Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’ , etc. James Macpherson (1736-1796). Ossian (1760-73) Goethe, Walt Whitman - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Literary Hoaxes:Throwing Out the Baby
with the Bathwater
IA Brief Survey
Psalmanaazaar
• Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704)
• Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’, etc
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
• Ossian (1760-73)• Goethe, Walt Whitman
• Spread of Romanticism throughout Europe
Thomas Chatterton (1752-70)
"This is the most extraordinary young man that has come to my knowledge ... it is wonderful how the whelp has written such things" – Samuel Johnson
Insert: Painting of Chatterton by Wallis
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/romanticstudies/chatterton/
Thomas Chatterton (1752-70)
• ‘Thomas Rowley’ (1769)• Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence": I
thought of Chatterton, that marvelous Boy;• Coleridge, "Monody on the Death of Chatterton"
(1796): O Chatterton! That thou were yet alive!• Charles Harpur (Aust.)
‘Ern Malley’ (1944)
Insert image of Angry Penguins:http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=9203
• The Darkening Ecliptic• (James McAuley, Harold Stewart)• Vs Angry Penguins, ed. Max Harris
• ‘Adoré Floupette’ (1885)• (Henri Beauclair, Gabriel Vicaire)• Les Déliquescences d’Adoré Floupette
Frank O’HaraJohn Ashbery
John Tranter, John Forbes, etc.
‘B. Wongar’ (1972- )
(Sreten Božič)
Mudrooroo (1995)
(Mudrooroo Narogin, Mudrooroo Nyungar, Colin Johnston)
‘Helen Demidenko’ (1995)
(Helen Darville, Helen Dale, etc)
IIConcepts and Applications
Unexamined territory:
• The poetics of the hoax• The pathology of the hoax
Poetics
Two concepts
• The Peritext
• Ultra-fiction? Hyper-literature?
‘writing without borders’?
We also need to consider:
Broad range
Pseudonymy/’masking’ to parody to satire/deflation to pathological enactment
e.g. in Australia:
• ‘Tom Collins’ (Joseph Furphy)• ‘Miles Franklin’ (Stella Maria Miles Franklin)• ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ (• ‘Mort Brandish’• ‘Ern Malley’• ‘B. Wongar’• Paul Radley• Mudrooroo• ‘Helen Demidenko’• ‘Wanda Koomatrie’ (Leon Carmen)• Marlo Morgan• Norma Khouri• Etc.
‘Hoax Nation’ ??
A national pathology ?
i.e. an ontological anxietylegacy of Immigration / cultural displacement
Sidney Nolan, ‘Ned Kelly’(no face: the poet who does not exist)
• Insert image of Sydney Nolan paintinghttp://nga.gov.au/nolan/index.cfm
Tim Storier, ‘The Histrionic Wayfarer’(no face: the poet who does not exist)
• Insert image: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2012/29250/
The question of ‘identity’
• As national obsession• As international/universal obsession
Fernando Pessoa (Portugal, 1888-1935)Heteronyms
The pressure to cohere is one of the madnesses of our times
Deleuze and Guattari
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The pressure to be one
Hoax as domain of the multiple
Why teach literary hoaxes?
• Corrective to literary history – filling out the real story
• Better understanding of national character and identity
• (most important?) better understanding of individual identity formation, the battle of the Multiple and the One (and so better understanding of immense contemporary psychological pressure [depression, etc.])