Review of James McAuley: Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary ed. Leonie Kramer, Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics ed. David Brooks and Brenda Walker, and A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War by Susan McKernan

Abstract

Although these three books appeared within a year of each other, they stem from markedly different theoretical, scholarly and critical genealogies. Even where they overlap momentarily in their focus—poetic theory, cultural analysis, the work of James McAuley—they don't appear to be part of the same conversation. They exemplify very clearly some of the differing critical dialects that constitute the contemporary discourse on Australian literature.

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Published 1 October 1990 in Volume 14 No. 4. Subjects: Australian Women Poets, James McAuley.

Cite as: Mead, Philip. ‘Review of James McAuley: Poetry, Essays and Personal Commentary ed. Leonie Kramer, Poetry and Gender: Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics ed. David Brooks and Brenda Walker, and A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War by Susan McKernan.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, 1990, doi: 10.20314/als.06d83b6db3.