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Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead

Nicholas Birns

Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. In Contemporary…

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Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures

This anthology challenges prevailing notions of world literature by showcasing marginalized voices from diverse backgrounds and regions from the global north to the global south. It seeks to dismantle the…

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Willa Cather

Provides a fresh, general overview of Willa Cather’s life and work, exploring why and how she is one of America’s most treasured and expansive writers.

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The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space

Nicholas Birns

This book surveys the hyperlocal in the works of authors such as Jane Austen, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches…

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Cultural Encounters

Though it has been only in the last few decades that scholars have read literary works through the lenses of ethnicity and the history and aftermath of colonialism, the theme…

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Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century

Nicholas Birns

Theory After Theory is an engaging guide to the movements of literary theory and related intellectual history in the past sixty years.

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The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

Nicholas Birns

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed…

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A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900

A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense.

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Reading Across the Pacific: Australia-United States Intellectual Histories

Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective.

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Understanding Anthony Powell

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Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Nicholas Birns (New York University),Louis Klee (University of Cambridge)

Covering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented…

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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Nicholas Birns (New York University),Louis Klee (University of Cambridge)

Covering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented…

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Fatal Design

Anna Faktorovich

Lucinda Thoso, the new Murder Beat reporter, joins the busy newsroom of Cherub Daily. She is immediately thrust into the heart of Los Angeles’ gangs, vindictive lovers, corrupt bureaucracy, unintended…

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Black Renaissance: St. Orpheus Breviary, Vol. II

Miklos Szentkuthy

Black Renaissance is the continuation of Szentkuthy’s synthesis of European culture. Via three Orphean masks, he veers through the Renaissance, sounding a pessimistic ‘basso continuo’ on psychology, sin, metaphysics, eros…

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Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature

Explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations’ literatures by considering literary…

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Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature

Explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations’ literatures by considering literary…

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Roberto Bolano as World Literature

Roberto Bolano as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of…

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Roberto Bolano as World Literature

Roberto Bolaano as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of…

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Anthony Trollope: A Companion

Nicholas Birns,John F. Wirenius,Laurence W. Mazzeno

Anthony Trollope’s novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. This literary companion introduces readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore Trollope’s short story…

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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolano and After

A comprehensive introduction and guide to new Spanish American novels and novelists.

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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolano and After

A comprehensive introduction and guide to new Spanish American novels and novelists.

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Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life

Includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life . This work tackles a range of topics - from identity politics, to music, to…

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Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life

Includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life . This work tackles a range of topics - from identity politics, to music, to…

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Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory

Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social…

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Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory

Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers. Karen Tei Yamashita is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains…

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect: A Collection

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect provides a multifaceted, backward glance at Garcia Marquez and his output as a writer. The essays examine his cultural background and influence, take a close…

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect: A Collection

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect provides a multifaceted, backward glance at Garcia Marquez and his output as a writer. The essays examine his cultural background and influence, take a close…

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