Literary Criticism
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A Full Hearing: Orality and Literacy in the Malay World
A fascinating study of the effect on Malay peoples of having their traditional oral culture supplanted by a written one It focuses on the...RM120.00 -
Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties
Age of Empires presents the art and culture of China during one of the most critical periods of its history – the four centuries from 221 BC to AD...RM320.00 -
Brecht and Method
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding...RM40.00 -
Colony, Nation and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature
The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the...RM55.00 -
Culture and Imperialism
Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines Western culture From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to...RM100.00 -
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most...RM95.00 -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer
In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia’s most celebrated writer speaks out against...RM78.90 -
How to Read Literature
What makes a work of literature good or bad How freely can the reader interpret it Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of...RM69.90 -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What it Means
The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers...RM137.50 -
Intimating The Sacred: Religion In English Language Malaysian Fiction
This study analyses an important feature in English-language Malaysian fiction that has been considerably neglected in scholarship - the theme of...RM45.00 -
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation...RM94.90 -
Life from Elsewhere: Journeys Through World Literature
Writers in Translation, established in 2005, champions the best literature from across the globe To mark the programme's tenth anniversary, English...RM49.90 -
Materialism
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening,...RM75.00 -
Mekong Review 35 (May–July 2024)
The latest issue of Mekong Review, the leading English-language magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society...RM45.00 -
Mekong Review 36 (August–October 2024)
The latest issue of Mekong Review, the leading English-language magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in...RM45.00 -
Mekong Review: vol. 5 no. 4
The latest issue of Mekong Review come in a paperback book format for the same time (because of printing restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic)...RM40.00 -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism A brilliant display...RM115.00 -
Moral Imagination: Essays
Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural...RM58.00