Writing Australian unsettlement
Subtitle: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945
By: Michael Farrell
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137485717
Subjects: Colonists; Minority authors; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Australian literature; History
Description: "This book rewrites the history of Australian literature, through reading the unorthodox poetics of colonial life writing, from letters to tree carvings. Farrell examines page, punctuation and grammar to present a new version of Australian literature, including texts by poets, bushrangers, Indigenous stockmen, a Chinese miner and migrant women" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The hunted writer; title: An Australian poetics of the plough; title: Unnecessary inventions; title: Open secrets; title: Boredom; title: Unsettling the field; title: Writing to order; title: Homelessness; title: Conclusion.