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Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ’rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912-1990), winner of the 1973......more

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This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an envi......more

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This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The languag......more

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This volume marks the birth centenary of a giant amongst contemporary writers: the Australian Nobel prize-winning noveli......more

Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores a......more

Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim is a comprehensive study of Elizabeth von Arnim, a much-l......more

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Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscap......more

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 200......more

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Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha’s Third Space or of Stuart Hall’s po......more

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The Solomon Islands has a rich linguistic heritage of over 60 languages, many of which have not been described in detail......more

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This ancient saga begins with the goddess Pele s migration to Kīlauea and her spirit s search for a lover. The story t......more

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From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation featur......more

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The concept of ’wilderness’ as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debat......more

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