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Grainger on Music(1st Edition)
by Percy Aldridge Grainger, Malcolm Gillies, Bruce Clunies Ross, Bronwen Arthur, David Pear
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 1999 by Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816665-8, ISBN: 0-19-816665-6

"Cyril Scott once described Percy Grainger as a `lovable eccentric'. The Australian-American pianist, composer, ethnologist, and aspiring `all-round man' was, however, more eccentric to his own age than to ours. His views on the environment, food, the body, participatory democracy, and sex all anticipated by several decades views more typical of the mid-late twentieth century. Prolific as a composer, performer, and recording artist, ..."

Debating World Literature(Updated)
by Christopher Prendergast, Emily Apter, Benedict Anderson, Nicholas Dew, Peter Madsen, Simon Goldhill, Stephen Heath, Franco Moretti, John Sturrock, Francesca Orsini, Stanley Corngold, Professor Stanley Corngold, Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig, Timothy J. Reiss, Bruce Clunies Ross
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-458-8, ISBN: 1-85984-458-8

"In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of "literature" has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. Its starting point is Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its concerns include the legacy of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term "literature" itself, cros ..."

The Poetry of Les Murray
Critical Essays (Australian Literary Studies, V. 20, No. 2.)
by Editor-Laurie Hergenhan, Bruce Clunies Ross, Editor-Carol Hetherington, Joanne Scott, Bronwyn Stevens, Laurence Thomas Hergenhan
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Queensland Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7022-3291-6, ISBN: 0-7022-3291-2

"Les Murray is acknowledged internationally as Australia's leading poet, yet the criticism of his work has not been commensurate with his substantial reputation.These groundbreaking, new essays range across Murray's considerable output, impressive in their depth as well as their coverage as they reveal the riches of his poetry. They examine its lyrical qualities and its remarkable linguistic inventiveness, its landscapes and 'soundscape ..."

Cocos Maritime History
A History of the Ships and Boats of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean
by Bruce Clunies Ross
75 Pages, Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-473-15420-2, ISBN: 0-473-15420-X

Debating World Literature
by Christopher Prendergast, Contributor-Emily Apter, Contributor-Stanley Corngold, Contributor-Nicholas Dew, Contributor-Benedict Anderson, Contributor-Simon Goldhill, Contributor-Stephen Heath, Contributor-Peter Madse, Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig, Peter Madsen, Franco Moretti, Francesca Orsini, Timothy J. Reiss, Bruce Clunies Ross, John Sturrock
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-592-9, ISBN: 1-85984-592-4

"In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of ‘literature’ has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. Its starting point is Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its concerns include the legacy of Goethe’s idea, variable understandings of the term ‘literature’ itself, cros ..."

European Perspectives
Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature - A Special Issue of Australian Literary Studies, Volume 15, No. 2
by Giovanna Capone, Bruce Clunies Ross, Werner Senn
Paperback, 203 Pages, Published 1991 by Univ Of Queensland Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-7022-2423-2, ISBN: 0-7022-2423-5

"... heritage, the common concerns of British writing: 'To feel the fire of their undying hopes, / To see all beauty with their gifted sight, / To long o'er Byron's, Campbell's, Milton's, Pope's, / And Spencer's [sic] page, with their divine delight?"

The New Percy Grainger Companion(Reprint)
by Penelope Thwaites, Alan Woolgar
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2016 by Boydell Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-185-6, ISBN: 1-78327-185-X

Bodies and Voices
The Force- Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/ Colonial: Literatures in English)
by Martin Leer, Eva Rask Knudsen, Mereta Falck Borch, Merete Falck Borch, Bruce Clunies Ross, Bodies And Voices-
Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 2007 by Rodopi
ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2334-5, ISBN: 90-420-2334-1

"Jody Bennet Veroff and Nancy Rule Goldberger convincingly hold that “in our society today it is not uncommon for groups identified by race, gender, class, ethnicity [...] or age to call themselves 'cultures' and to be so called by others, despite the fact that their members also reside in and partake in the 'culture' of the larger society.”8 Veroff and Goldberger emphatically stress that cultures within cultures do exist, despite t ..."

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