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Liverpool University Press

Australian Journal of French Studies: Vol. L, No. 1 edited by Brian Nelson

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November 2013, no. 356
Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. L, No. 1'. edited by Margaret Sankey

This number of the Australian Journal of French Studies has been superbly guest-edited by Sydney University’s Margaret Sankey, a world authority on French voyages of discovery in the southern hemisphere. In addition to her own work, there are contributions by several French and New Zealand colleagues.

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Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley by John Kinsella, edited by Niall Lucy

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November 2011, no. 336
David McCooey reviews 'Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley' by John Kinsella, edited by Niall Lucy

This book of essays by the vegan-anarchist-pacifist poet John Kinsella on the relationship between political activism and poetry raises two big questions: how do we live in modernity? and what is it like to live beyond the mainstream? The first question lies behind the great cultural movements of the West, from Romanticism to postmodernism. Whether writers have embraced modernity or rejected it, they have long struggled with the very conditions that brought literary culture into existence. The utopian possibilities of modernity have always been in conflict with modernity’s material realities.

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