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Jump to navigationJump to searchAgainst All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination by Jeff Shantz (view source)
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From Chesterton and Joseph Conrad to Joyce and Eugene O'Neil, Wole Soyinka to LeGuin, punk zines to Chomsky, Shantz offers students and scholars of literature a valuable and relatively unusual perspective (it's surprising how popular Marxist lit-crit is by comparison).
''Against All Authority'' is a scholarly text, possibly a PhD dissertation adapted for a book publication, and has to be approached as such. Although I am a keen reader and have some interest in literary criticism, I don't have enough knowledge of this field (or anarchist thought for that matter) to venture a comparative judgement and I will thus .
I was actually surprised in how readable, interesting and relevant I found some of the analyses in ''Against All Authority''.
