Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, other manifestations of "e;Guantanamo,"e; and the contested place of freedom in American Empire.

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.

This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices.

This book explores Sartre's engagement with the Cuban Revolution.

This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War.

This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain.

This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities.

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism.

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J.

This book focuses on W.

This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction.

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.

This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture.

This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art.

This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer.

This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years.

This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival.

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century.

This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States.

This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present.

This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland.

This comprehensive chronological introduction offers a detailed analysis of Rose Tremain's novels and examines the critical reception of her work.

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature.

This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism.

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English.

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction.

This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf's writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects.

This book is about migrants' lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan.

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing).

This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children's literature through their representations of working-class life and culture.

This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas.

This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience.

The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA's Federal Writers' Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression.

In the South, railroads have two meanings: they are an economic force that can sustain a town and they are a metaphor for the process of southern industrialization.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of representations of Holocaust perpetrators in literature.

"e;Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way.

This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century.

This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel.

This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction.

This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe's fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries.

'This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry.

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor.

This book discusses D.

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism.

This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa.

This book breaks the assumption that the racial tension the in 9/11 novels lies solely in the dynamic between "e;Americans"e; and "e;terrorists.