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Australian Poetry

Australian Poetry
Romanticism and Negativity

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  • Date Published: May 1996
  • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521432399

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  • This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.

    • Offers a comprehensive look at the history of Australian poetry, from colonial times to the present, with a focus on the major poets
    • Introduces the critical concept of negativity, which has become increasingly important in contemporary criticism and theory
    • Chapters on individual poets offer sustained analyses of important poems
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    • Date Published: May 1996
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521432399
    • length: 264 pages
    • dimensions: 236 x 162 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.502kg
    • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: framing the question: 'What is Australian poetry'?
    Part I. Origins and Absences:
    1. The absence of romanticism
    2. Poetic origins and negativity
    Part II. Reinventing Romanticism:
    3. Charles Harpur and the myth of origins
    4. Henry Kendall's negations
    5. Christopher Brennan and the allegory of poetic power
    Part III. Visionary Negativity:
    6. Nihilism in Kenneth Slessor
    7. A. D. Hope and romantic displacement
    8. Ern Malley: the mystic and the demystified
    Part IV. Evasions and Convergences: A Negative Romanticism:
    9. Judith Wright and silence
    10. Gwen Harwood and capable negativity
    11. Les Murray and poetry's otherworld
    Conclusion: the negative strain in Australian Romanticism
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Paul Kane, Vassar College, New York

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