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Is Australian romance an oxymoron It has been long thought so; not for us Don Juan or Don Quixote but Ned Kelly and Tom Collins. Even when romance rears its alluring head in Australian fiction, as with Harry's wooing of Sybilla in 'My Brilliant Career', it is often quashed as a distraction or delusion.

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Mid-century woman writers re-considers Australian women writing after the cataclysm of World War II, from within post-war culture; women demonstrating the agency of writing fiction before the formal politicisation of feminism.

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Despite rumours of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying this work.

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(Paperback, Cfs 24 ed.)

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A path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.

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Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works force us question how America got into its current political crisis - and where it might go from here.

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In the fourth installment of the Bookmarked series, Aaron Burch tackles Stephen King's Different Seasons.

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Dynamics of display in gendered contexts put toward purposes of resistance are explored across six modern canonical and popular novels in French - including an African Francophone fiction and a murder mystery - as well as their selected film adaptations.

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The first widely available translation in English of one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets.

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Presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation.

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"A highly original take on evocative terms such as extraction, burial, fossils, deep time, and speculative futurity, Subsurface questions the certainty of comfortable narrative arcs. It asks us to read literature with and against the figure of the geological column, with and against fossil fuels and the emissions warming our planet"--

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A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kant, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali.

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A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kant, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali.

(Hardback)

Provides a detailed analysis of intertextual sources from the perspective of the metaphorical re-writings which they undergo in Proust's writing. The author re-evaluates the broader role within the novel of images, which tend to be viewed as isolated rather than as essential parts of a coherent network.

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Classic anthology updated for the modern student with selections in French, introductory material (introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors) and notes in English. Each century has its own volume.

(Paperback, New edition)

Contains selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. This book includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors.

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Contains selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. This volume includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors.