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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Mao's Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the...
The Bookseller's Tale
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our...
Classical Literary Criticism
Recently updated and expanded volume of the landmarks of ancient literary criticism The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they...
Poetics
Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling. Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...
Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest
'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist
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Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories
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After the War
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Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction
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The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
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Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Book by Book
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The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
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Shakespeare on Love
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Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition
Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
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Author: E.A. Loew
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Family Skeleton
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A Book To Love: Favourite Guests of ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club Share Their Most Loved Books
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King Arthur in Legend and History
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Stone 588
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Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
F. Scott, Ernest And Me
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A Passion for Books
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Written Lives
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Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
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Women Writers of the 17th Century
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Women Writers at Work: The "Paris Review" Interviews
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Nganajungu Yagu
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
Author: Leah Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom...
Britannicus
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Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Jean Racine's classic play Britannicus is a chilling study of the emergence of a monster, as Emperor Nero begins to take...
Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
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Works on Paper
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The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
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The Smiling Buddha
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Criticism: Ideas in Profile
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsAt the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a...
Re-Figuring Hayden White
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Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
Author: Alan Jenkins (Asst editor, poetry editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are...