Nathanael O'Reilly
ISBN13: 9781604977110
Date: 08-Aug-10
Essay collections focusing on the postcolonial nature of national and regional literatures have previously been published; however, this is the first collection to focus exclusively on Australian literature as postcolonial literature and the first collection of essays on Australian literature in which all the contributors write from a postcolonial theoretical perspective. It is thus a groundbreaking work that makes an important contribution to both Australian literary studies and postcolonial studies.
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The Rise of Journalistic Double-Mindedness, 1917–1941
Burton St. John III
ISBN13: 9781604977066
Date: 28-May-10
Increasingly, Americans are turning away from the traditional press––especially newspapers––for the news of the day. In fact, by May 2009, a Pew survey revealed that 63 percent of Americans said they would not miss their paper if it ceased publishing. Inspired by the works of Pierre Bourdieu, James Carey, and Michael Schudson, this work finds that journalism’s current problems with pertinence lies within an unreflexive relationship with those who would offer the helping hand of propaganda materials.
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Robert Lumsden
ISBN13: 9781604975260
Date: 28-Jan-09
"This book is a valuable resource, particularly for students and teachers of
poetry, but also for those with an interest in the place of theory in literary studies. Rarely ever is theory illustrated so clearly in practice. The author’s passion for poetry, and its place on university curricula, is laudable, and a voice currently much needed among professional academics." - Transnational Literature
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Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an Ethical Reading
Jeremy Fernando
ISBN13: 9781604976335
Date: 28-Oct-09
This book attempts to conceive of the possibility of an ethics of reading––“reading” being understood as the relation to an other that occurs prior to any semantic or formal identification, and therefore prior to any attempt at assimilating what is being read to the one who reads.
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