161 research outputs found
Review Essay: \u27No Simple Passage: The Journey of the Ship London to New Zealand, 1842—A Ship of Hope\u27 the Ship London to New Zealand, 1842—A Ship of Hope\u27
No full textNo Simple Passage: The Journey of the Ship London to New Zealand, 1842—A Ship of Hope (Jenny Robin Jones) (Reviewed by Nicholas Birns, Eugene Lang College, the New School, New York
Contemporary Australian Literature
No full textAustralia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.
In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward.
Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice - one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it
Contemporary Australian Literature
No full textAustralia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance.
In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward.
Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice - one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it
Herbert C. Jaffa, 1920–2013: A Sheaf of Remembrances
No full textThe Man Who Loved Australia - Nicholas Birns
A Warm Generosity - Laurie Hergenhan
Insistent and Forward Looking - John Scheckte
Contemporary Australian Literature: preliminary materials
No full textAustralia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia’s distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics, from Patrick White to Hannah Kent, from Alexis Wright to Christos Tsiolkas, responded to this condition. With rancour, concern and idealism, modern Australian literature conveys a tragic sense of the past yet an abiding vision of the way forward. Birns paints a vivid picture of a rich Australian literary voice – one not lost to the churning of global markets, but in fact given new life by it. Contrary to the despairing of the critics, Australian literary identity continues to flourish. And as Birns finds, it is not one thing, but many
Review of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff.
No full textReview of Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff
Corral, Will H., Juan E. de Castro, and Nicholas Birns, eds. The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Print. 454 pp.
No full textCorral, Will H., Juan E. de Castro, and Nicholas Birns, eds. The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After . New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Print. 454 pp
The Inner Consistency of Reality : Intermediacy in \u3ci\u3eThe Hobbit\u3c/i\u3e
No full textEspecially concerned with Bilbo’s characterization, unusual in children’s literature, as middle-aged, but also addresses other issues of world-building and story structure that reinforce this motif of “starting in the middle”: maps, the sense of the past, racial characteristics and relations. Birns draws interesting contrasts with the Alice in Wonderland and Oz books
Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth, Part 1
No full textThe Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth panels bring together seven of the chapters to appear in the upcoming volume of the same name from MythPress. The volume explores the habitations of Middle-earth across the ages, as well as the cultures responsible for those built structures. Presenters will briefly explain their chapters in order to leave plenty of room for discussion.
Moderator: Cami Agan Panelist: Nicholas Birns Panelist: Birgitte Breemerkamp Panelist: Marie Bretagnolle Panelist: Robin A. ReidTech Mod: Tim Len
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