Widely considered one of Australia's three or four greatest writers, Christina Stead's reputation, within Australia and overseas, has grown steadily in the ten years since her death. It is largely built on one work, her memorable novel of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. This major new study sets that novel within the continuities and developments of Stead's writing over five decades. Jennifer Gribble sees Stead's lifelong fascination with story-telling as the key to a sophisticated and...
This is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born into Edwardian Dublin, where he was briefly held hostage in his family home at Lansdowne Road during the 1916 Rising. Son of a Supreme Court judge, he was schooled at St Andrew's in Dublin, in Edinburgh and Christ's College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University. He made the na...
Garde A Vous !!! Ou Les Fripons Et Leurs Dupes. (Litterature)
by De Mere-E
Most of What Follows is True (CLC Kreisel Lecture)
by Michael Crummey
Teaching resiliency is the next step in the character education movement. Author, Mary Humphrey presents recommendations for teaching this important skill based on lessons she has taught and perfected in her elementary school library.Featuring in depth lesson plans using picture books and intermediate novels for each of the five coping skills: Work on a Talent, Look Within, Find a Champion, Rescue Yourself, and Help Others, this book is immediately usable in the elementary classroom or school li...
Cinq-Mars, Ou Une Conjuration Sous Louis XIII. Edition 4, Tome 2 (Litterature)
by Alfred de Vigny
Chaucer Source and Analogue Criticism (Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer)
by Lynn King Morris
Originally published in 1985. This impressive research tool offers four different indexes to cross-reference works on the sources of Chaucer. The user can look up sources by author, genre type or title, or look up the title of one of Chaucer’s works to find which bibliographic entries they are mentioned within. This is a useful reference work on Chaucer source and analogue scholarship, including 1477 entries.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
Balladen Und Lieder Altenglischer Und Altschottischer Dichtart...
by August Friedrich Ursinus and Thomas Percy
Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
by Stachurski Christina
Graphic History
When it comes to recounting history, issues arise as to whose stories are told and how reliable is the telling. This collection of fourteen essays explores the unique ways in which graphic novels can aid us in addressing those issues while shedding new light on a variety of texts, including those by canonical North American and European writers Art Spiegelman (Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers), Alan Moore (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns),...
The period after the Norman Conquest saw a dramatic reassessment of what it meant to be English, owing to both the advent of Anglo-Norman rule and increased interaction with other cultures through trade, travel, migration, and war. While cultural contact is often thought to consolidate national identity, this book proposes that these encounters prompted the formation of intercultural regional identities. Because of these different cultural influences, the meaning of English identity varied from...
Rupert Brooke in the First World War (Clemson University Press)
by Alisa Miller
Les coulements Transitoires Dans Les Conduites (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Guizani-M