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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.

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 coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source on a subject of growing interest to researchers.

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 coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source on a subject of growing interest to researchers.

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 Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tel...

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 three dimensional characters and to create the...

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 beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.

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Provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture. It provides a wealth of historical and intellectual context to allow the reader to make sense of the movements in recent literary theory.

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

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Addresses the theme of cultural encounters in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies. For readers who are studying the theme for the first time, four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts containing the theme. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to othe...

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

Offers techniques for teaching Australian and New Zealand literature in college and discusses the history of the two countries, Maori and Aboriginal texts, colonialism, gender, landscapes, violence, indigenous aesthetics, ethics, and crime fiction. Includes information on editions, reference works, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

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 and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local.