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There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind – symbolism that has helped the novel’s most memorable character, the Monkey King, find universal resonance.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
To read broadly and deeply is a marvellous thing that can make us alert to the wide-ranging varieties of being. But no book will condemn or redeem us.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing press – and may reveal our own hidden fears and desires.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Nigeria’s writer and professor of drama, Kole Omotoso, died on 19 July 2023 aged 80.
No one languished in bed quite like the Victorians
Milan Kundera, the celebrated Czech author best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died, aged 94. His work interrogated totalitarianism and explored ideas – leavened with bleak humour.
Six of the best books from 2023 to read this summer.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to cancel the publication of her latest novel needs to be understood in the context of a long history of symbolic protest.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
The late American writer was drawn towards death and apocalypse, tet to read his work is also to be exhilarated and enlightened.
For Franz Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is just one of many artists from Appalachia who are probing the crisis in their work, while taking pains to ensure that it doesn’t define the region and its people.
Generations of Palestinian writers and poets have expressed their feelings of grief and loss.
The ‘divine right of kings’ may sound obsolete, but it has resonances today. Richard II asks what it means to have power, to take power – and what we’re left with when it’s gone.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University