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English Novel in History, 1950 to the Presentby Steven Connor
Routledge 1995; US$ 37.95Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, this book offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century. more...
New Bloomsday Bookby Harry Blamires
Routledge 1996; US$ 41.95An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses . more...
Voices from the Heartby Roger Bennett
IAD Press 1995; US$ 5.25Voices From The Heart is the first volume of poetry published by IAD Press, the publishing arm of the Institute For Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs. Better known for its offerings in more academic areas of Aboriginal studies this volume gives a direct and emotional voice to the Aboriginal people of Central Australia. more...
Post-Colonial Dramaby Helen Gilbert; Joanne Tompkins
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95The first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. Brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies. more...
Language of Postcolonial Literaturesby Ismail S. Talib
Routledge 2002; US$ 39.95Exploring literatures from a range of countries this book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. more...
Feminist Poeticsby Terry Threadgold
Routledge 1997; US$ 49.95Terry Threadgold looks principally at the influence of poststructuralism and feminism on poetics, the study of ready-made textual forms. more...
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetryby Denise de Caires Narain
Routledge 2001; US$ 37.95This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. more...
Gender and Modern Irish Dramaby Susan Cannon Harris
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 33.55Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, Harris documents the material and discursive forces that produced Irish conceptions of gender. She looks at cultural ... more...
Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literatureby Jonathan Wilcox
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 52.50Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives. more...
Naipaul's Strangersby Dagmar Barnouw
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 18.35From his reporting on Islamic true believers to his descriptions of the postcolonial world, V. S. Naipaul has been a controversial figure in contemporary letters. Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories (Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival, and A ... more...