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1	Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse more books like this by David Ferry (Translator) add to wishlist A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes "Gilgamesh" available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| SVS
2	Collected Songs of Cold Mountain more books like this by Red Pine add to wishlist This authoritative, bilingual edition represents the first time the entirety of Cold Mountain's poetry has been translated into English. Legendary for his clarity, directness, and lack of pretension, the eighth-century hermit-poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan) is a major figure in the history of Chinese literature and has been a profound influence on ... see all copies from $8.84! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| SVS
3	The knight in the panther's skin. more books like this by Shota Rustaveli add to wishlist see all copies from $13.74!
4	The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature more books like this by William H Wilde add to wishlist The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, which now appears in a fully revised and updated edition, provides a concise but comprehensive account of Australian writing from European settlement in 1788 to 1993. Its chief aim is to present the most important achievements of Australian literature in the major fields of poetry, fiction and drama, ... see all copies from $8.77! new only from $39.99! \| first editions
5	Henry Handel Richardson: A Life more books like this by Michael Ackland add to wishlist Henry Handel Richardson is celebrated for her classic Australian novels The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, yet her own life-story is still to be fully told. This enthralling book is the first complete biography of this enigmatic Australian literary icon. Drawing on previously unavailable records, the book sheds new light on ... see all copies from $6.77! new only from $6.77! \| first editions
6	Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism more books like this by Graham Huggan add to wishlist The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings of an outstanding, sometimes ... see all copies from $18.37! new only from $18.37! \| first editions
7	Di Serambi: On the Verandah: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry more books like this by Iem Brown (Editor), Joan Davis (Editor) add to wishlist Di Serambi: On the Verandah brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. Over forty poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together with notes on linguistic and cultural references, and a brief biography of each contributor. The poems have been selected to offer a range of chronological, thematic, and stylistic ... see all copies from $14.06! new only from $21.93! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Echo of Our Song: Chants & Poems of the Hawaiians more books like this by Mary K. Pukui (Editor), Alfons L. Korn (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Word; The Pen & the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti more books like this by Robert Nicole add to wishlist The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, the book reveals in the French colonial territory of French Polynesia the complicit ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
10	Peter Carey more books like this by Bruce Woodcock add to wishlist Peter Carey is one of the most respected novelists currently writing. Since the original edition of this book, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience: he has won the Booker Prize for the second time with "True History of the Kelly Gang", while "Oscar and Lucinda" has been made into a successful feature film. Bruce Woodcock ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.26!
11	Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition more books like this by Kay Schaffer add to wishlist Images of Australian identity, and of Australian nationhood, are social and cultural constructs. There are several dominant themes and elements, one of the most pervasive being the Australian bushman confronting a vast and barren landscape. This is a specifically Australian conception of the battle between Man and Nature. Throughout the myths, ... see all copies from $27.00! new only from $33.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature more books like this by Elizabeth Webby (Editor) add to wishlist This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason more books like this by Rachel Barrowman add to wishlist The full story of the gifted but troubled R. A. K. Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons, after his extraordinary beginning, Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book, "The Beggar, into Auckland harbor in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.29! \| first editions
14 view cover	Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin more books like this by Rod Edmond add to wishlist This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of ... see all copies from $42.48! new only from $46.75! \| SVS
15 view cover	Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors more books like this by Hirini Moko Mead, Neil Grove add to wishlist This unique collection of more than 2,500 pepeha, "sayings of the ancestors, " were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature ... see all copies from $23.77! new only from $23.77! \| first editions
16 view cover	Menagerie 1 more books like this by John H McGlynn (Editor) add to wishlist The prima donna of modern Indonesian literature is the short story. Menagerie 1, the first in a series of volumes focusing on this literary form, offers a wide range of themes by many authors including: Ahmad Tohari B.Y. Tand Budi Darma Danarto Gerson Poyk Hamsad Rangkuti J.E. Siahaan Leila S. Chudori Nh. Dini Putu Wijaya Seno Gumira Ajidarma Umar ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.86! \| SVS
17 view cover	Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature more books like this by Gwendolyn Leick add to wishlist By interpreting the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources from ancient Mesopotamia, Gwendolyn Leick allows us an insight into a world with fundamentally different attitudes to eroticism. The sophisticated literary texts which survive; poems, songs, myths, narratives and incantations, provide a fascinating breadth of perspectives on the subject of love ... see all copies from $12.93! new only from $41.34!
18	Lord of the Panther Skin more books like this by Shota Rustaveli add to wishlist see all copies from $12.65! new only from $18.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories more books like this by Kay Schaffer add to wishlist Eliza Fraser was an English woman shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1836, where she lived with an Aboriginal community until her rescue. The story of a 'civilised' white female being taken captive by 'savage' black men was both fascinating and repulsive. Images and narratives surrounding this notorious episode have proliferated from the 1830s ... see all copies from $38.72! new only from $40.37! \| SVS
20 view cover	Pukui: Echo of Our Song Paper more books like this by Mary K Pukui (Translator), Alfons L Korn (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.96! new only from $43.90!
21 view cover	Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy more books like this by Elizabeth Hale (Editor), Sarah Fiona Winters (Editor) add to wishlist Margaret Mahy's extraordinary young-adult novels are examined by leading scholars in this collection of critical essays. Considering the ways that fantasy provides both adventure and security for adolescents, the discussion centers on the role of witches, pirates, ghosts, and tricksters in Mahy's tales. see all copies from $26.40! new only from $26.40!
22 view cover	A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms more books like this by G A Wilkes (Editor) add to wishlist Now available in a fourth, revised, and greatly expanded edition, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms records the robustness and inventiveness of the Australian vernacular and provides a unique insight into Australian life and culture. This famous dictionary, first published in 1978 (ten years after Professor Wilkes began collecting), offers ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	A Full Hearing: Orality and Literacy in the Malay World more books like this by Amin Sweeney add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History more books like this by Michael Boss (Editor), Britta Olinder (Editor), Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or unwillingly enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $25.91!
25 view cover	Inscribing Body/Landscape Relations more books like this by Bronwyn Davies add to wishlist This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.80!

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