tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798312463652733622.post600931667201214574..comments2024-01-19T04:32:25.260+11:00Comments on Ned Kelly : Death of the Legend: No DebateDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104818673788818740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798312463652733622.post-58742468583564972682014-10-08T06:50:38.948+11:002014-10-08T06:50:38.948+11:00Thanks for that link Jorgy, Ive had a quick look b...Thanks for that link Jorgy, Ive had a quick look but will study it later when I have more time.It looks really interesting.<br /><br />I do agree with that last sentence you quote, that WHY people believe is often much more interesting than WHAT they believe. <br /><br />I am also of the view that sanitising their heroes, as the kelly sycophants do, makes their heroes LESS interesting and is a disservice to the humanity of the person. This could be said of all icons from Jesus through Mohammed to Joseph Smith and of course political heroes like Gough. <br /><br />My interest is to make it clear that the real Ned Kelly and the Myth are two very different individuals. Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14104818673788818740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798312463652733622.post-7354256156368059812014-10-06T21:12:16.848+11:002014-10-06T21:12:16.848+11:00Dee, you might find something in this .pdf:
https...Dee, you might find something in this .pdf:<br /><br />https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/37139/283596_Ghosts%20of%20Ned%20Kelly.pdf<br /><br />Its a Master thesis dealing with the Peter Carey True History. The concluding paragraph says "True History illustrates Kelly’s versatility and Carey’s departure from the traditional Kelly myth creates a new Kelly myth, and one perhaps better suited to a contemporary Australia that is moving towards more inclusive modes of identification. Carey’s reconfiguring of Kelly illustrates that the reason we continue to invest in Kelly is because he can successfully be adapted to reflect what we wish to see in ourselves. Just as Kelly can reflect a hypermasculinity and a conservative, insular nationalism he can also reflect the opposite: progressive gender and transnational identities. Like all mirrors, the Kelly figure is less interesting in its own right than for that which it can reflect:.Jorgynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798312463652733622.post-57096174473998075882014-10-05T20:50:22.251+11:002014-10-05T20:50:22.251+11:00The Kelly gang are presented by Ian Jones as four ...The Kelly gang are presented by Ian Jones as four typical country lads who endured heaps of bad luck. Everything is filtered though Ian's rose-coloured glasses. No excuse is overlooked. Thw gang do indeed emerge as unlikely, sheepish, creepy icons. Jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2798312463652733622.post-55327196484216491942014-10-04T21:59:08.869+10:002014-10-04T21:59:08.869+10:00Peter FitzSimons was great at rugby and has publis...Peter FitzSimons was great at rugby and has published very disparate books about a host of Aussie legends like Batavia, Kokoda, Tobruk, Eureka, Mawson and Ned Kelly. This is beatification on a grand scale, Pete's own money-making cottage industry. Ned is one of the Blessed in his view, but having skimmed the book I couldn't really figure why. It is dedicated to Ian Jones whose views have been borrowed extensively.<br /><br />Ned Kelly's helmet has become iconographic too, but you are pointing out the structural defects in the Kelly story. Eventually, the Joneses and Fitzsimons of Australian literature will be exposed for deliberately leading us all astray.Robnoreply@blogger.com