Joel Gwynne and Angelia Poon
ISBN13: 9781604978247
Date: 28-Dec-12
As the first critical collection of essays to consider the representation of sexuality across such a wide variety of contemporary writing, Sexuality and Contemporary Literature analytically foregrounds insights into the historical and current arrangements of sexuality that contemporary literature provides, while also inviting the reader to imagine other possibilities for the future that literary texts open up.
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Peter Usher
ISBN13: 9781604977332
Date: 28-Nov-10
In this book, renowned astronomy expert Peter Usher analyzes five plays, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale. With painstaking thoroughness, he dissects the plays and reveals that, contrary to current belief, Shakespeare was well aware of the scientific revolutions of his time.
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Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist
Brigitta Olubas
ISBN13: 9781604978049
Date: 28-May-12
"Lucidly written, theoretically sophisticated, and scrupulously researched, Brigitta Olubas' account of Shirley Hazzard shows us just how this great cosmopolitan novelist has produced a body of work that lies outside and beyond 'terrain of the nation.'" – Michael Gorra, Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English, Smith College
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Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore, 1945–2000
Ernest Koh
ISBN13: 9781604976779
Date: 18-Mar-10
In a critical study that has no parallel among existing works on Singapore history, this book dispenses with the homogenous historical experience that is commonly presumed in the writing of Singapore’s national past after 1945 and explores how the enforcement of a uniform language policy by the Singapore government for cultural and economic purposes has created underappreciated social and economic divides among the Chinese of Singapore both between and within families.
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