Australian category: 153 books
Intermediate Tagalog
Learn to Speak Fluent Tagalog (Filipino), the National Language of the Philippines (Downloadable material included)
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
At last, a way to improve your Tagalog!
Written by Joi Barrios as the continuation of her best-selling Tagalog for Beginners book, Intermediate Tagalog is the first intermediate-level book designed specifically for people who already speak or understand some basic Tagalog and now wish to achieve...
Instant Tagalog
How to Express Over 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases!
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!
Do you want to speak simple Tagalog but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting the Philippines for a short time and want a Tagalog phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this is the book for you—it's the quickest...
by Frank Sargeson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Frank Sargeson wrote fiction for over half a century as well as occasional criticism in many forms and on many topics. Writers considered include D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson and Olive Schreiner besides fellow New Zealanders such as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan Davin, James...
Kin of Place
Essays on New Zealand Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This collection of 28 critical essays provides provocative comment on the work of 20 New Zealand writers, including Elizabeth Knox, Katherine Mansfield, Kendrick Smithyman, Allen Curnow, and Janet Frame.
Leaving the Highway
Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
The major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This first critical study of Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Ian Wedde, and C.K. Stead concentrates on their important works to explore how deeply-rooted anxieties about New Zealand's
cultural situation and national identity are articulated in New Zealand fiction.
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim
At Her Most Radiant Moment
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
When Elizabeth von Arnim anonymously published her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), she became a literary star overnight. The mystery surrounding the identity of this witty aristocratic diarist in her romantic garden kept readers guessing: Who was Elizabeth? A Prussian Princess? The daughter...
Mediating Memory
Tracing the Limits of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles...
Look Back Harder
Critical Writings, 1935-84
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The collected critical writings of one of New Zealand’s major poets and critics, covering half a century of his work. Of the thirty-eight items (reviews, essays, lectures, interviews, and letters) included, his controversial introductions to his anthologies of New Zealand verse are the best known....
by Chris Price, MA
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order, the author constructs a series of vignettes mixing biography, autobiography, arcane snippets of information,...
I think … I am going to die.'
Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
When Miss Katherine Mansfield, the brilliant novelist, passed away the other day in almost the spring of her promise, it was in a curious little oasis in the historic Forest of Fontainebleau… From 'The Graphic', 10 March 1923
This moving, beautifully written chapter from Kathleen Joness biography...
In the Glass Case
Essays on New Zealand Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Over a quarter of a century, C. K. Stead has built up a widely accessible collection of reviews and critical essays on New Zealand literature. In the Glass Case covers a wide spectrum of New Zealand writers, who are examined from a remarkably consistent viewpoint. The title is symbolic: New Zealand...
Decolonizing Culture in Pacific Literature
Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines...
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
Tagalog for Beginners
An Introduction to Filipino, the National Language of the Philippines (Downloadable MP3 Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This is a straightforward and user–friendly guide to the Tagalog language.
Tagalog for Beginners is the book to help you learn Tagalog (Filipino) on your own, efficiently and accurately—whether you're traveling to the Philippines for a vacation or a business trip, or you have ties to the...