Networked language
Subtitle: culture & history in Australian poetry
By: Philip Mead.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781740971973
Subjects: Australian poetry -- History and criticism; Australian literature -- History and criticism; Language and culture -- Australia; Culture in literature
Other titles: Culture and history in Australian poetry
Description: From the effects of Kenneth Slessor's work in film journalism, to the hybrid forms of contemporary Australian language, this study presents new ways of understanding Australian poetry, drawing on an equal fascination with the artifice of poetry and the complexity of culture. Author from University of Tasmania, Australia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Ut cinema poesis; title: 2. Poetry and the police; title: 3. Constitutional poetics; title: 4. Homelessness; title: 5. 'It's poetry Jim, but not as we know it!'; title: 6. Unsettling language.