| Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945 2015 Edition Contributor(s): Farrell, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 113748571X ISBN-13: 9781137485717 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 820.999 |
| LCCN: 2015012249 |
| Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.93 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |