Fairly Obsessive: Essays on the Works of John Kinsella

by Mengham, Rod

• ISBN13: 9781863683258
• ISBN10: 1863683259
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr

Summary

Fairly Obsessive is a collection of essays which reflect the breadth and versatility of Kinsella's interests: in the land, in hyperspace, in music, in philosophy, in politics and in poetry, fiction and drama. The contributors come from Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Canada. Some of the articles are academic, some are reviews and others are original experiments in the art of the essay. This mixture is a good example of the sort of cultural hybridising that Kinsella puts at the centre of his own work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(6)
Rod Mengham
John Kinsella: A Phenomenon by Any Standard	15	(15)
Glen Phillips
Writing Both Ends of the Spectrum: Some Notes on John Kinsella's Poetry	30	(14)
Douglas Barbour
John Kinsella's Poetry --- Some Reflections	44	(9)
Xavier Pons
National Geosophical Lexicon: The Lasseter Sequences	53	(14)
Andrew Duncan
Screen Memories: Challenging Cultures of Viewing in John Kinsella's Full Fathom Five	67	(22)
Ann Vickery
Tradition and Questioning: The Silo as Pastoral Symphony	89	(15)
Dennis Haskell
Harrowing Paddocks: John Kinsella and Neo-Pastoralism	104	(15)
Glen Phillips
`Ground Zero Warholing': John Kinsella and the Art of Traumatic Realism	119	(25)
Louis Armand
John Kinsella's Poetics of Hybridity	144	(15)
Peter Minter
Unreading Kinsella: Dropping Names and Revolutions of the Word in Syzygy	159	(17)
Michael Brennan
Shifting Homeland: Viewing The Post-Pastoral Subject In John Kinsella's The Radnoti Poems	176	(18)
Ann Vickery
'Vocable Scriptsigns' Differential Poetics in John Kinsella's Kangaroo Virus	194	(10)
Marjorie Perloff
John Kinsella's 'Quatrains from the Kangaroo Virus Project': Recovering Pastoral over Offended Ground	204	(17)
Peter Larkin
Mind the Gap: John Kinsella's Verse Drama	221	(15)
T J Cribb
Seeing Straight: John Kinsella's Genre	236	(14)
Nigel Wheale
Generator: Thinking Through John Kinsella's Genre	250	(24)
McKenzie Wark
Black Suns	274	(10)
Jeremy Thurlow
An Interview with John Kinsella	284	(16)
Rod Mengham
Biographical Note	300	(1)
John Kinsella
Select Bibliography	301	(2)
John Kinsella
Essayists' Biographical Notes	303