Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations.

Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

Caterina Riba presenta aquest estudi sobre l'obra de Maria-Mercè Marçal des de la "permeabilitat", des de la intertextualitat i el procés obert de significació que permet la seva poesia.

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Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking.

This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany's Vergangenheitsbewaltigung.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure.

Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban.

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoglu, once a cosmopolitan neighborhood called Pera.

Now available in paperback, this pioneering collection of essays deals with the topic of how Irish literature responds to the presence of non-Irish immigrants in Celtic-Tiger and post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day.

Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W.

"e;As best exemplified by the works of Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda, Italian modernist fiction is particularly rich in bizarre and ludicrous characters, whose originality is often derided by a uniform society.

Covering a wide range of poets and poems, this volume narrates a compelling history of nineteenth-century American women''s poetry.

By the standards of any age, Frances (Fanny) Trollope was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life.

This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature.

An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time.

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background.

A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.

The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected.

What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction?

Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates is an advanced introduction to prominent issues in contemporary postcolonial literary studies.

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste.

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critical study of the relationship between bodies, memories and communal witnessing.

This book explores the history of women's engagement with writing experimentally.

Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman.

This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow''s work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing.

In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction.

Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels.

An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and following the Second World War, this book moves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre to offer an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across spy fiction.

Critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

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In the late nineteenth century, Asian American drama made its debut with the spotlight firmly on the lives and struggles of Asians in North America, rather than on the cultures and traditions of the Asian homeland.

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

What is wisdom?

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage.

The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "e;America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature.

A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline.

The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of modernist political movements.