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  • The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    Supplementary Letters

    Edited by Paul Eggert, Chris Vening ...
    Series Book 2 - The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle
    Charles Harpur (1813-68) was the most important of Australia's colonial poets. In 2023 Sydney University Press published The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle, a selection of 200 letters and biographical documents, most previously unpublished, culled from libraries, archives and colonial newspapers. The present volume supplements and completes this work, presenting and extensively ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • How D. H. Lawrence Wrote

    Performance on the Page

    by Paul Eggert ...
    Paul Eggert's book meshes biographical scholarship and editorial theory with literary-critical analysis to offer a fresh understanding and appreciation of how D. H. Lawrence wrote. By concentrating on the material surfaces and biographical moments of Lawrence's textual performances as he wrote and revised, Eggert reveals a continuous intellectual-imaginative project across his novels, stories, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

    Scholarly Editing and Book History

    by Paul Eggert ...
    By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

    by Paul Eggert, Chris Vening ...
    This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur’s two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Biography of a Book

    Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils

    by Paul Eggert ...
    Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • The Editorial Gaze

    Mediating Texts in Literature and the Arts

    Edited by Paul Eggert, Margaret Sankey ...
    Series series Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
    This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different concerns shared by editors of a variety of genres, literary and otherwise, emerge here as constructive new ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line

    An Articulation of Two Theories of Difference

    by Juliana De Nooy ...
    Series series Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
    Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less indistinguishable and sometimes as incompatible This book aims at establishing precisely how Kristeva's and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Under Western Eyes

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
    Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and first ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

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    Grandpa's Darlings (Unabridged)

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    Narrated by Claudia Tresvant, Barbara Eggert, Kimberly Reyes, Paul Fisher ...

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    5 hours 41 min

    Fiction, or fact? The narrator asserts it's fact. The narrator is an author, whom her little nieces call "Auntie Belle". There's also an "Auntie Dule" (proper name Julia), Grandpa and Grandma, Mama and Papa, and eventually an Uncle Ross (Isabella Alden's husband, Gustavus Rossenberg Alden). The book is made up of vignettes of the funny sayings or doings of little Minnie and little Gracie, and how ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

    by Peter Howarth ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American ... Read more

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  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
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  • The Australian Disease

    On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series Book 1 - Short Blacks
    'Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile ... Read more

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