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Ulysses: A Review: A Modernist Classic

In: European Literature

By: Martyn Conterio

Book Review: Misconceptions: Sophie Townsend’s Australian Novel About Relationships

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India: The Traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947

In: Asian Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Life and Times of Dante Alighieri: Historical Context of the Divine Comedy

In: European Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

Changes: A Love Story: An Insightful Novel by Ama Ata Aidoo About African Feminist Issues

In: African Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Devil on the Cross: Ngugi’s Damning Portrait of Post-Colonial Kenya

In: African Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

Review: The Time We Have Taken: Steven Carroll’s Novel Set in the Australian Suburbs

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review: Love Without Hope: Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted Novel by Rodney Hall

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Michio Takeyama's Harp of Burma: Religion in the Post-World War II Japanese Novel

In: Asian Literature

By: Simon August Thalmann

Life and Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o: King of Kenyan Literature

In: African Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

The Namesake: A Critically-Acclaimed Novel By Jhumpa Lahiri

In: Asian Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Book Review: Landscape of Farewell: Alex Miller’s Novel Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Malinche: A Historical Novel: Highly Acclaimed Author Laura Esquivel Takes on Controversial Figure

In: Latin American Literature

By: Christine Welter

Music Theme in Orpheus Lost: The role of Music in Janette Turner Hospital’s 2007 Novel

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review: Orpheus Lost: Miles Franklin Award Longlisted Novel by Janette Turner Hospital

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa: Three Novellas Translated by Stephen Snyder

In: Asian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Book Review: Sorry by Gail Jones: Australian Novel Longlisted for 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Review: The Widow and Her Hero: Longlist Selected Novel for the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year: 2007 Novel by Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee

In: Australian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

The Library of Babel: Imagining an Infinite Library Decades Before the Internet

In: Latin American Literature

By: Robert O'Connor

Book Review: The Fern Tattoo: 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee by David Brooks

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel By Buchi Emecheta

In: African Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

The Empire and the Poets: Rudyard Kipling's India and Rabindranath Tagore

In: Asian Literature

By: Robert O'Connor

Miles Franklin Award Longlist 2008: Longlist Selections for Australia’s Most Significant Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Miles Franklin Literary Award: Australian Book Award for Novels and Plays

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's Novel of Gender and Caste Constuction in India

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Jessica Workman

Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way: Novel of conflicting Loyalties of Irish soldiers of World War I

In: European Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Book by Book: Michael Dirda Reflects on the Meaning of Books to our Lives

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Adair Jones

China's Nobel Laureate: Gao Xingjian's Works Are Born of a Repressive Regime

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Adair Jones

Rwanda: Land of a Thousand Hills: An African memoir by Rosamond Halsey Carr and Ann Howard Halsey

In: African Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Seamus Heaney:The Burial at Thebes: Translation of Sophocles' Antigone by 1995 Nobel Laureate

In: European Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee: 2005 Novel From South African Nobel Laureate in Fiction

In: Australian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Book Review: The Long Walk: An Australian Junior Fiction Novel by Kate Greenwood

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: Lisa See's Novel Examines Women's Relationship in 19th Century China

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Chinese Poetry: Wild Grass: Lu Hsun's Collection of 20 Prose Poems Written in the 1920s

In: Asian Literature

By: George Conrad Gould

One Night at the Call Center: An Indian Tech Support Center Sets the Stage for a Night of Change

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Uno Chiyo: Japanese Author of Confessions of Love

In: Asian Literature

By: Meg Nola

Maupassant's Diamond Necklace: What Is Happiness Worth?

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Kafka's Heroes: Basic Characteristics

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Blindness, by José Saramago: Navigating Chaos

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: A Review of an Anthology Written by Women of the Iranian Diaspora

In: Middle Eastern Literature

By: Mona Lisa Safai

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament for a Vanishing World

In: African Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Nina Berberova: Author and Critic

In: European Literature

By: Meg Nola

Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedy: Hamlet doesn't just avenge murder, he contemplates it.

In: European Literature

By: Jennifer Alpeche

The Trial, by Franz Kafka: Understanding Joseph K.’s Failed Case

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Anna and the King of Siam: Leonowens' account, Margaret Landon's book, and movie adaptations

In: Asian Literature

By: Maria Jaijet D. Jasmin

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka: Interpreting the Transformation of Gregor Samsa and his Family

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

The Bible as Magical Realism: Old Testament connections to a South American Genre

In: Latin American Literature

By: Barbara Steinhauser

Italian Writer I.U. Tarchetti: Author of Fantastic Tales and Passion

In: European Literature

By: Meg Nola

Magical Realism Tactics: Defamiliarization Writing Techniques Applied

In: Latin American Literature

By: Barbara Steinhauser

Ode on a Grecian Urn: Explanation for Students!

In: European Literature

By: Preeti Raghunath

Explanation of 'The Tyger': Made Easy For Students

In: European Literature

By: Preeti Raghunath

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Honoured: Cartagena hosts Nobel Prize Winner and World Literati

In: Latin American Literature

By: Richard McColl

Cantar de Mío Cid, the legend: The story and legend of a Middle Ages nobleman, first mediaeval text

In: European Literature

By: Angeles Fernández

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