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This Companion considers anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through critical debates.
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Virginia Woolf
Discover Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity
A Room of One’s Own is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and widely recognized for…
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Jessica Gildersleeve
This first in-depth study of Christos Tsiolkas’s entire corpus provides an understanding of his position in relation to Modernism, thereby drawing out his points about character, setting and politics, illuminating…
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Don’t Look Now (1973), “a ghost story for adults’, stands apart from the more explicitly violent horror films of the 1970s. Jessica Gildersleeve puts the film in the context of…
This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside…
From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen’s work straddles, informs and defies…
The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all constitute a…
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