Writing Australian Unsettlement by Michael Farrell
A bold work of synthetic scholarship, Writing Australian Unsettlement argues that the history of Australian literature contains the rough beginnings of a new literacy. Michael Farrell reads songs, letters and visual poems by Indigenous farmers and stockmen, the unpunctuated journals of early settler women, drover tree-messages and carved clubs, and a meta-commentary on settlement from Moore River (the place escaped from in The Rabbit-Proof Fence) in order to rethink old forms. The book borrows the figure of the assemblage to suggest the active and revisable nature of Australian writing, arguing against the settling effects of its prior editors, anthologists, and historians. Avoiding the advancement of a new canon, Farrell offers instead an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing.-
Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context
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Delmore Schwartz
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Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry
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The Poetry of Disaster
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Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism
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Communism and Poetry
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The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes
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New York School Collaborations
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Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
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The Poetry of Susan Howe
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Modernism and Poetic Inspiration
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Poetry After the Invention of America
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Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry
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The Poetics of the American Suburbs
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The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
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Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore
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Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem
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New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry
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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
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The Social Life of Poetry
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(Re:)Working the Ground
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The Poetics of Waste
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Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism
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Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry
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Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
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Women's Poetry and Popular Culture
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Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in New American Poetry
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Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 19601980
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A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
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US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012
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Reading Uncreative Writing
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson
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Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies
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Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School
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Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
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The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry
"Writing Australian Unsettlement is a daring and remarkable study of intertextuality and appropriation as poetic toolsDisassembling and reassembling a variety of generic models, he demonstrates with the greatest aplomb how such contemporary techniques as collage, recycling, visualization, and translation are currently reanimating the field of Australian poetry. Only a scholar who is himself a discerning poet could have brought it off so elegantly." - Marjorie Perloff, Emeriti Professor of English, Stanford University, USA
"A brilliantly original piece of critical and scholarly work, Writing Australian Unsettlement is intellectually adventurous, investigating and challenging foundational assumptions of the literary and postcolonial fields. Drawing from an eclectic range of source material and theorists, Michael Farrell makes a major contribution to the rethinking of the postcolonial paradigm as it is currently happening around the globe." - Philip Mead, Professor of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia
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| ISBN 13 | 9781137485717 |
| ISBN 10 | 113748571X |
| Title | Writing Australian Unsettlement |
| Author | Michael Farrell |
| Series | Modern And Contemporary Poetry And Poetics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2015-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 223 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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