Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality-one often challenged by history, starting with the appropriation of land from their indigenous peoples. This volume explores ......
Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south Asian languages. The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles that grew out of that tradition, as well as a complex commentary ......
This handbook was written specifically for beginning students. It presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus. Among the readings, the first seven are in effect preliminary exercises. The remaining twenty readings ......
The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequences Though students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often find the writings themselves alienating. This volume will help teachers in a range of courses-including those on British literature, ......
The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequences Though students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often find the writings themselves alienating. This volume will help teachers in a range of courses-including those on British literature, ......
Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectual Toni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently challenged and banned, a fact that highlights their power. Centering Black people and their lives, Morrison's writing pushes readers to ......
Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectual Toni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently challenged and banned, a fact that highlights their power. Centering Black people and their lives, Morrison's writing pushes readers to ......
New frontiers in American fiction After 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long excluded their perspectives from mainstream literature. Since then, authors have continued to investigate identity and align their work with the ......
New frontiers in American fiction After 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long excluded their perspectives from mainstream literature. Since then, authors have continued to investigate identity and align their work with the ......
