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  • De-Scribing Empireby Chris Tiffin; Alan Lawson

    Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95

    A stunning collection of first-class essays examining the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. Helpful and important reading for students of post-colonial criticism. more...

  • Encyclopedia of the Essayby Tracy Chevalier

    Fitzroy Dearborn 1997; US$ 275.00

    The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre, reflecting the explosion of academic interest in this field. more...

  • Globalizing Dissentby Ranjan Ghosh; Antonia Navarro-Tejero

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 113.00

    This edited collection examines Arundhati Roy beyond the aesthetic parameters of her fiction, focusing also on her creative activism and struggles in global politics. The chapters travel to and fro between her non-fictional works – engaging activism on the streets and global forums – and its underlying roots in her novel. more...

  • Postcolonial Enlightenmentby Daniel Carey; Lynn Festa

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 125.00

    Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial.... more...

  • How to Write Essaysby Don Shiach

    How To Books 2009; US$ 19.95

    This 2nd edition of this straightforward guide to essay writing - an essential skill for students at all levels. It includes expert advice and practical guidance from an experienced author. Students can dramatically improve their grade assessments by putting into practice some simple, but invaluable principles of essay writing. It deals both with timed exam conditions and coursework essays. Students can use this book to understand exactly what is required of them and how to deliver it - a winning formula. Don Shiach has 40 years experience as an educator, having taught at secondary and university levels and been involved in marking A level examination papers. He knows very well how students at all levels badly need clear guidance about how... more...

  • The Made-Up Selfby Carl H. Klaus

    University of Iowa Press 2010; US$ 19.95

    In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks the writer's made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essay have brought it to life. By reconceiving the most fundamental aspect of the personal essay--the I of the essayist--Klaus demonstrates that this seemingly uncontrived form of writing is inherently problematic, not wilfully devious but bordering upon the world of fiction. He develops this key idea by explaining how structure, style, and voice determine the nature of a persona and our perception of it in the works of such essayists as Michel de Montaigne, Charles Lamb, E. B. White, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, George Orwell, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriquez, Alice Walker, and Leslie... more...

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