Books in the Muse: Munich Studies in English series

By submitting six novels selected from India, South Africa and the Caribbean to contrastive readings, this study traces the scope of literary interpretation in a postcolonial context. More than simply providing a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of each text, it challenges both the benefits and limits of a postcolonial approach.

This book uses the model theory as a new way to approach Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. It explores a model of Romantic irony in the poetry of two contemporary Brisbane poets: David Malouf and the Indigenous author Samuel Wagan Watson. The ironic dialectic is applied to the problem of postcolonial place-making in their work.

This is an edited collection of essays that focuses on exchanging literary and cultural perspectives between humanities traditions in East and West. The book explores ways in which academic fields within East and West may enter into new and productive collaborations.