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Michael Farrell - Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) - 9781137485717 - V9781137485717
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Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)

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Description for Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) Hardcover. From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137485717
SKU
V9781137485717
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is the editor of Slope Magazine.

Reviews for Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)
"Writing Australian Unsettlement is a daring and remarkable study of intertextuality and appropriation as poetic tools. Disassembling 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 ... Read more

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