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  • Theory After Theory

    An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century

    by Nicholas Birns ...
    Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture. Accessible but rigorous, this book provides a wealth of historical and intellectual context that allows ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

    by Nicholas Birns ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books.History is unfolded in various ways, both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space

    by Nicholas Birns ...
    This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as the pond, the scientific particle, and Wedgwood creamware often go unnoticed, but they exemplify important shifts in culture and aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Anthony Trollope

    A Companion

    by Nicholas Birns, John F. Wirenius, Laurence W. Mazzeno ...
    Series series McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
    Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures

    Periphery and Center

    by Iker Arranz, Nicholas Birns, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Jonathan Locke Hart, Yanli He, Bergur Rønne Moberg, Kawan Mohammadpur, Rahime Çokay Nebioglu, Ryan Winet0 ...
    Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center makes a declarative intervention in debates about world literature, redefining the boundaries between the center and periphery to rejuvenate long-established assumptions about significance and insignificance. In this book, African American literature (emerging from the often overlooked pink periphery, a cramped space of minor ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

    A Collection

    by Rudyard Alcocer, Nicholas Birns, Juan De Castro, William Flores, Edith Grossman, Zhanna Gurvich, Regina Janes, María del Mar López-Cabrales, Haley Osborn, Rubén Pelayo, Robert L. Sims, Olivia Vázquez-Medina, Marcela Velasco, Héctor Hoyos, Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Michael Wood, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

    by Nicholas Birns, Louis Klee ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Pacifism

    Histories, Social Contexts, Activism

    Edited by Nicholas Birns, John Kinsella ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    This book offers a profound and necessary re-evaluation of pacifism, positioning it not merely as a negative stance against war, but as a comprehensive philosophical orientation toward living and ethical engagement. Moving beyond conventional political and historical limitations, the collection interrogates the radical intellectual and practical potential of non-violence in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Harrower

    Critical Essays

    by Nicholas Birns, New York University, Professor Robert Dixon, Megan Nash, Ivor Indyk, Michelle de Kretser, Dr Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Webby, Brigid Rooney, Julian Murphet, Kate Livett ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure.The essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Contemporary Australian Literature

    A World Not Yet Dead

    by Nicholas Birns, New York University ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.In Contemporary Australian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Reading Across the Pacific

    Australia-United States Intellectual Histories

    Edited by Professor Robert Dixon, Nicholas Birns, New York University ...
    Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel

    Bolano and After

    Edited by Professor Will H. Corral, Professor Juan E. De Castro, Professor Nicholas Birns ...
    The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and ... Read more

    $42.89 USD