Australian & Oceanian 2

What are other things to see in Australia besides kangaroos and aborigines? Find out the answer in this exciting picture book. Learn about Australia's landscapes, best places to visit, as well as th……続きを見る

Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writin……続きを見る

The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her literary aesthetics placed her at a distance from the artistic works of the g……続きを見る

This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this ra……続きを見る

Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity……続きを見る

In 'Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge', geschrieben von Rainer Maria Rilke, taucht der Leser in eine Welt der introspektiven Reflexion und existenziellen Suche ein. Das Buch erzählt die Ge……続きを見る

The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumpt……続きを見る

Oscar Wildes 'Aufsätze' präsentieren eine Sammlung seiner brillanten Essays, die eine Mischung aus Satire, Ironie und tiefgreifender Menschlichkeit aufweisen. Der Autor verwendet eine prägnante und ……続きを見る

Corporeal Archipelagos: Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women’s Literature offers an examination of contemporary literature from the French-speaking Oceanian region through a focus on four ……続きを見る

‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen fro……続きを見る

In this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, Andrew Frost contextualises the major thematic concerns of Rowan Woods' film The Boys into the broader context of social anxieties about violence, cri……続きを見る

Based on Kenneth Cook's classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until ……続きを見る

Set in the Northern Territory, Jedda tells the story of an Indigenous baby adopted by a white woman. She grows up with an expectation that she’ll marry a mixed-race stockman, only to be abducted by ……続きを見る

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology……続きを見る

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing t……続きを見る

Extrait : Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le port de Koréla. Plusi……続きを見る

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gen……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Book Thief with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, which foll……続きを見る

Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. Fro……続きを見る

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dori……続きを見る

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogen……続きを見る

Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preser……続きを見る

The Ocular Paradigm of Frontier Fiction: Visual Subjectives of the Early New Zealand Novel investigates the early New Zealand novel as a literary product of Victorian diaspora and colonisation of th……続きを見る

This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 19……続きを見る

Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century traveled extensively or lived overseas for a time. In The Expatriate Myth, Helen Bones presents a challenge to this conven……続きを見る

Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Dav……続きを見る

Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the very first order … The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its……続きを見る

Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go … It was reading as an affa……続きを見る

This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries, spanning all ages and life stages. The firs……続きを見る

An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australi……続きを見る