Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

First published in 1971, this book provides a historical account of the fortunes of Rhetoric.

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siecle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period.

Das Buch thematisiert die langjährige Verbindung zweier Männer – Hermann Hesse und Theodor Heuss –, die von den frühen beruflichen Kontakten junger Literaten im Jahre 1905 bis zu den späten Begegnungen zwischen einem Nobelpreisträger und dem ersten deutschen Bundespräsidenten Ende der 1950er-Jahre reichte.

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.

Die Kindler Kompakt Bände präsentieren in handlicher Form die 30-40 wichtigsten Autoren und Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts.

In 1990 Herve Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "e;A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauve la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)"e;.

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "e;haunted, holy ground"e; in English and American literature for almost two centuries.

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading.

As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.

This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century.

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present.

On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today?

Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

During the last decades of the twentieth century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as 'national' or 'mainstream'.

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century literary history.

The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent.

Lyrik – eine Überforderung als Programm?

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population.

Postcolonial Locations seeks to clarify the meaning of 'the postcolonial' through close textual readings, and prioritises material and located readings over more abstract theoretical discussions; it seeks to re-orient the field by providing practical explorations of what the discipline is for.

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

Das Wort ‹Geschichte› hat bei Hans Mayer, dem Literarhistoriker, sein besonderes spezifisches Gewicht: der erste Abschnitt dieses Buches, der Studien zum Expressionismus, zu Gerhart Hauptmann und Hermann Hesse vorträgt, heißt nicht zufällig «Überhang der Tradition» und endet nicht zufällig mit einem «Rückblick auf Thomas Mann»; mit diesem Schriftsteller, den Mayer als Ende und Neubeginn zugleich verstanden wissen will, führt der Autor zu den elf großen Synthesen, in denen die «Deutsche Literatur seit Thomas Mann» neu interpretiert wird bis hin zur Sonderentwicklung einer zweiten deutschen Literatur in der DDR.

This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals.

In the years since his suicide, scholars have explored David Foster Wallace's writing in transdisciplinary ways.

In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I.

An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction.

In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author, recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life.

An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms.

Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.

Moderne Lyrik ist zugleich Medienpoesie, die auf die Herausforderungen einer modernen Medienlandschaft reagiert.

This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the eighteenth century to the present and highlights its foundational role in modern European and Western identity.

This book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country's independence, in works by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverria, Juan B.