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Literature shapes freedom: Aotearoa & Australian voices for social change.
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Forms of Freedom

Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature

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    248 pages

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    1 January 2025

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Summary

In Forms of Freedom, Dougal McNeill explores how the creative literary imagination can influence progressive social change in the real world. In engaging prose and with impressive intellectual range, McNeill applies insights from Marxist critical theory to the works of selected Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian writers.

From Harry Holland, Henry Lawson, and Mary Gilmore responding to the legacy of Robert Burns in the nineteenth century, to twenty-first-century novelists app…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781990048760
ISBN-10:1990048765
Author:Dougal McNeill
Publisher:Otago University Press
Imprint:Otago University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:1 January 2025
Weight:484g
Dimensions:21mm x 151mm x 231mm
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Forms of Freedom by Dougal McNeill - ISBN: 9781990048760
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About The Author

Dougal McNeill

Dougal McNeill teaches in the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Wellington. He is active in the Tertiary Education Union. His other books include Writing the 1926 General Strike, co-authored with Charles Ferrall, and an edition of Harry Holland’s Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist.

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