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  • Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity

    by Brigid Rooney ...
    Series series
    ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ focuses on the dynamic interaction between suburbs and suburbia as this emerges in a century-long series of Australian novels – in works by Christina Stead, George Johnston, Elizabeth Harrower, Patrick White, Christos Tsiolkas and many other twentieth-century and contemporary writers. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric found in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity

    by Brigid Rooney ...
    Series series
    ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ focuses on the dynamic interaction between suburbs and suburbia as this emerges in a century-long series of Australian novels – in works by Christina Stead, George Johnston, Elizabeth Harrower, Patrick White, Christos Tsiolkas and many other twentieth-century and contemporary writers. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric found in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity

    by Brigid Rooney ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time. ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ rethinks existing cultural debates about ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time, Tide and History

    Eleanor Dark's Fiction

    Edited by Brigid Rooney, Fiona Morrison ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing.This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Gerald Murnane

    Another World in This One

    by Tristan Foster, Luke Carman, Shannon Burns, Samantha Trayhurn, Emmett Stinson, Brigid Rooney, Mark Byron, Suzie Gibson, Arka Chattopadhyay, Ivor Indyk, Gerald Murnane ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of" and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rattling Spears

    A History of Indigenous Australian Art

    by Ian McLean ...
    Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Walking Inside Out

    Contemporary British Psychogeography

    Edited by Tina Richardson ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Landscapes of Liminality

    Between Space and Place

    Edited by Dara Downey, Elizabeth Parker, Ian Kinane ...
    Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already been undertaken in this area, and elaborates on the increasingly important and interrelated notion of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Gender Space Architecture

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    Edited by Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell ...
    Series series Architext
    This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

    A Handbook

    by Phil Smith ...
    This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD