Beyond Ambiguity

Tracing Literary Sites of Activism

John Kinsella

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Manchester University Press
01 July 2025

Literary essays; Literary studies: poetry & poets

Series: Angelaki Humanities

This volume completes John Kinsella's trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago.

It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of poetic activity as it pertains to environmental, humanitarian and textual activism in 'the world-at-large': it shows how ambiguity can be a generative force when it works from a basis of non-ambiguity of purpose. The book shows how there is a clear unambiguous position to have regarding issues of justice, but that from that confirmed point ambiguity can be an intense and useful activist tool.

The book is an essential resource for those wishing to study Kinsella, and for those with an interest in twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, and it will stand as an inspiring proclamation of the author's faith in the transformative power of poetry and literary activity as a force for good in the world.

By: John Kinsella
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 373g
ISBN: 9781526191212
ISBN 10: 1526191210
Series: Angelaki Humanities
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University.