Detritus: Addressing Culture and the Arts by Robyn Archer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
UWA Publishing has gathered together a selection of Robyn Archer's most memorable keynote speeches and memorial lectures from the past seven years. These words were written to be 'performed' and as such Robyn regards them as Detritus, that which remains of the act of public speaking. Grappling with the ...Show more
Beirut 39: New writing from the Arab world by various
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Beirut39' is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010. Following the successful launch of 'Bogota 39', which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd by David Marr
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
This irreverent, controversial account is sure to be one of the most talked-about publications of election year 2010 - a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Kevin Rudd's years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and intervi ...Show more
The Possessed : Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human ...Show more
THE ANTHOLOGY OF COLONIAL ROMANCE FICTION by GELDER & WEAVER
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Poet Alice Walker writes of her personal encounters with the cruelty and horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel through her work with Women for Women International and Code Pink and of finding her voice again after a period of speechlessness. Bearing witness to a range of depravity, Walker ...Show more
Lectures on Literature by Fredson Bowers
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by ...Show more
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
This volume complements the widely praised "Lectures on Literature, " which the "Washington Post Book World" ranked with "with Flaubert's letters, James' prefaces and Woolf's diaries as privileged, nourishing, irreplaceable meditations on the art of fiction."
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients."--Dorothy Scarborough This new se ...Show more
Heart Matters: Personal Stories About That Heart-stopping Moment by Peter Corris & Michael Wilding (eds)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Most of us don't think much about the workings of our hearts until something goes wrong with them. When that happens, our responses can vary as widely as the nature of the problem itself. Heart Matters brings together 15 personal stories by some of Australia's best writers, each telling of a medical inc ...Show more