Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature.

Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly.

This collection of letters, 85 percent of them previously unpublished, constitute a rich self-portrait of the artist and a vivid eyewitness chronicle of the twentieth century.

_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.

Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events?

Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland.

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture.

This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism.

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?

First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK.

Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies.

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Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties, examines alternative presses' critique of culture at a time of infamous transformation and revolution in the United States.

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the nonhuman.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic.

Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

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How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women?

The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers.

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape.

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author''s work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall.

Hemingway has been labeled a 'communist sympathizer,' 'elitist', and a 'rugged individualist.

Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers.

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work.

Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of suffering.

Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel.

New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research.

In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others.

Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity.

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children.

Jean Giraud (1938-2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s for a variety of French comics magazines.

For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes?

A lucid overview of Plath''s life, work, influence and the critical reception of her writings to the present day.

As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.

Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them.

The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument.