Product Description: This work contains contributions from the Stockholm triennial conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies and presents Joy Kogawa's compelling plea for peace and a sheaf of poems by Heather spears along with 20 essays using a variety of approaches in dealing with a wide range of Canadian writers...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This volume of the Dolphin gathers a comprehensive selection of critical texts on New Zealand literature from international specialists in the field. Their essays fall into four main categories that, taken together, provide a useful overview of the New Zealand canon: postcolonial revisions of settler texts, sociological approaches to the Irish diaspora and the country's class structures, the Maori Renaissance, and feminist writings...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 8th Nordic Conference of English Studies which took place in Goteborg, May 24-27 2001. The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars from the Nordic countries with an interest in English language, literature, culture and teaching...read more