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Literary Criticism
Andrew Marvell:
Pastoral and Lyric Poems, 1681Edited by David Omerod and Christopher Wortham
2000
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While none of Marvell's pastoral and lyric poetry was published during his lifetime, the thirty-two poems for which the poet is chiefly remembered today were published three years after his death in the Folio Miscellaneaous Poems of 1681.
The Folio, however, is almost certainly a corrupted version of Marvell’s original verse. David Omerod and Christopher Wortham’s new edition incorporates many new readings and argues for a radical revaluation of the Folio text.
A Long And Winding Road: Xavier Herbert’s Literary JourneySean Monahan
2003
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Literary criticism meets literary sleuth in A Long and Winding Road - the first major study of the work of seminal Australian author Xavier Herbert.
In making a substantial and original contribution to the better understanding of Herbert’s oeuvre, A Long And Winding Road tells the all-too-human story behind the creation of Herbert’s magnificent Poor Fellow My Country and seeks to answer two important questions: Why did Poor Fellow My Country receive such lukewarm reviews from the critical establishment upon its release, and how did a man who sometimes wrote so badly ever learn to write such a novel?
‘It is the 'human element' that lifts this book above other literary studies. Superbly written...a sheer delight to read.’ - Associate Professor Van Ikin, The University of Western Australia
 Mind the Country:
Tim Winton’s Fiction
Salhia Ben-Messahel
2006
978 1 920694 692 $39.95 Pb Add to cart
Bestselling author Tim Winton has won numerous awards - including being twice short-listed for Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize. With Cloudstreet already adapted as a highly successful stage play and a film version of Winton’s latest novel, Dirt Music, in pre-production, Mind the Country presents the first book-length critical study of this prolific, internationally acclaimed writer.
Exploring the powerful and evocative themes that have become such a popular and valued part of readers’ experience of Winton’s novels - the traditional versus the modern, the isolated versus the integrated, local versus global and the spiritual versus the expedient - Dr Ben-Messahel explores how the author’s love of Western Australian landscapes, seascapes and cities creates compelling scenarios of danger and solitude, self-discovery and creativity.
Settler Romances and the Australian GirlTanya Dalziell
2004
978 1 920694 20X $38.95 Pb Add to cart
Providing compelling insights into ideologies of race, class and gender in colonial and contemporary Australia, Settler Romances and the Australian Girl contains highly original readings of turn-of-the-century texts (including Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career, Catherine Martin’s An Australian Girl, adventure novels by J. D. Hennessey and Rosa Campbell Praed, and ethnographic works by Katharine Langloh Parker), demonstrating that current postcolonial theories about ‘settler’ and ‘second-world’ cultures are vastly inadequate.
 This Crazy Thing A Life:
Australian Jewish Autobiography
Richard Freadman
2007
978 0980296 426 $39.95 Pb Add to cart
The first book-length study of Australian Jewish autobiography, This Crazy Thing A Life makes a substantial contribution to multicultural and migrant writing. Essential reading for all lovers of autobiography, memoir and contemporary non-fiction.
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