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Macris, A
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351
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Webb, J |
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McAuliffe, J |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-07-01 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Meniscus, Manchester Review, 2019, Meniscus Vol 7, Iss 1: Manchester Review 22 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2202-8862 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10453/136333
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dc.description.abstract |
A portfolio of 5 poems. |
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Poetry |
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Meniscus, Centre for New Writing, Manchester University |
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Meniscus, Manchester Review |
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dc.title |
Transfigurations: Poetry Portfolio |
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Canberra, Manchester |
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1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing |
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utslib.citation.edition |
Meniscus Vol 7, Iss 1: Manchester Review 22 |
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Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication |
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/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy |
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open_access |
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true |
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pubs.edition |
Meniscus Vol 7, Iss 1: Manchester Review 22 |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Canberra, Manchester |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published online |
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Transfigurations: Poetry Portfolio (2019) Anthony Macris. FoR Code 1904 Research background Poet Tito Mukhopadhyay (2003), who has severe autism, depicts how autistic subjectivity orients itself in the world. Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud problematises subject formation in his statement ‘Je est an autre’ (1871), as does Jacques Lacan (1953) with his concept of the mirror stage. This portfolio of poems draws on confessional, symbolist and postmodernist poetics in order to investigate the impact of severe autism on human subjectivity. This portfolio asks how these poetic modes can create new understandings of the sensory experience and emotional impact of autism on both those who have the condition and also their carers. Research contribution In these poems the major theme of fragmented subjectivity – informed by the Symbolist approach that emphasises the disorder of the senses, and poststructuralist psychoanalysis that problematises signification – is enacted through a variety of poetic modes. In contrasting these related yet differing approaches to conceiving human subject formation, the poems build a new idiom with which to understand autistic subjectivity. Additionally, confessional strategies such as those used by Sylvia Plath are combined with postmodern techniques of bricolage and pastiche in order to portray notions of the damaged child and parental grief. Macris draws on imagistic metaphor from classic Hollywood genre films, principally The Night of the Hunter (1955). Research significance This portfolio employs a unique configuration of poetic modes to describe autistic consciousness and to provide a portrait of a family that struggles with loss, grief and difference. The four-poem suite was published in Meniscus, a journal of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (supported by the University of Canberra and the Copyright Agency Limited). “Transfiguration” was published by Manchester Review, an international journal of The Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester, ed. J. McAuliffe. |
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