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  • Pacifism

    Histories, Social Contexts, Activism

    Modifié par Nicholas Birns, John Kinsella ...
    Collections series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    This book offers a profound and necessary re-evaluation of pacifism, positioning it not merely as a negative stance against war, but as a comprehensive philosophical orientation toward living and ethical engagement. Moving beyond conventional political and historical limitations, the collection interrogates the radical intellectual and practical potential of non-violence in the twenty-first ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures

    Periphery and Center

    par Iker Arranz, Nicholas Birns, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Jonathan Locke Hart, Yanli He, Bergur Rønne Moberg, Kawan Mohammadpur, Rahime Çokay Nebioglu, Ryan Winet0 ...
    Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center makes a declarative intervention in debates about world literature, redefining the boundaries between the center and periphery to rejuvenate long-established assumptions about significance and insignificance. In this book, African American literature (emerging from the often overlooked pink periphery, a cramped space of minor ... En savoir plus

    $142.19 CAD

  • The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space

    par Nicholas Birns ...
    This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as the pond, the scientific particle, and Wedgwood creamware often go unnoticed, but they exemplify important shifts in culture and aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

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

    par Nicholas Birns ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    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 against the background of an already- existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books.History is unfolded in various ways, both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly, ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

    par Nicholas Birns, Louis Klee ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Anthony Trollope

    A Companion

    par Nicholas Birns, John F. Wirenius, Laurence W. Mazzeno ...
    Collections series McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
    Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Reading Across the Pacific

    Australia-United States Intellectual Histories

    Modifié par Professor Robert Dixon, Nicholas Birns, New York University ...
    Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Elizabeth Harrower

    Critical Essays

    par Nicholas Birns, New York University, Professor Robert Dixon, Megan Nash, Ivor Indyk, Michelle de Kretser, Dr Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Webby, Brigid Rooney, Julian Murphet, Kate Livett ...
    Collections series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure.The essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain ... En savoir plus

    $19.09 CAD

  • Contemporary Australian Literature

    A World Not Yet Dead

    par Nicholas Birns, New York University ...
    Collections series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    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. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.In Contemporary Australian ... En savoir plus

    $10.69 CAD

  • Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

    A Collection

    par Rudyard Alcocer, Nicholas Birns, Juan De Castro, William Flores, Edith Grossman, Zhanna Gurvich, Regina Janes, María del Mar López-Cabrales, Haley Osborn, Rubén Pelayo, Robert L. Sims, Olivia Vázquez-Medina, Marcela Velasco, Héctor Hoyos, Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Michael Wood, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Richard Flanagan

    Critical Essays

    par Ben Holgate, Robert Dixon, Joseph Cummins, Laura White, Bill Ashcroft, Salhia Ben Messahel, Marc Delrez, Margaret Harris, Nathanael O'Reilly, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nicholas Birns, Liliana Zavaglia ...
    Collections series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan's contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.Flanagan's fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of ... En savoir plus

    $19.09 CAD

  • Karen Tei Yamashita

    Fictions of Magic and Memory

    par Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, Dr. Bella Adams, Professor Nicholas Birns, Professor John Gamber, Professor Ruth Y. Hsu, Professor Chris LaLonde, Professor Cyrus R. K. Patell, Dr. Nathan Ragain, Professor Cynthia F. Wong, A. Robert Lee0 ...
    Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD