Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

In den letzten Jahren sind zahlreiche deutschsprachigen Texte erschienen, die von AutorInnen ost- und sudosteuropaischer Herkunft verfasst wurden.

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times ';The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin.

Peter Carey is one of Australia's finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public.

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century.

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing's Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade.

In Genesis of an American Playwright Horton Foote, one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early experiences as an actor in the theatre, to his mature vocation as a playwright.

This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English.

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.

This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.

John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books-books intended to educate or tell stories to young children.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common.

The epithet "e;phony"e; was omnipresent during the postwar period in the United States.

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Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing's Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade.

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Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish theatre that was prevalent in London during the 1920s.

Fiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit.

Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuk's Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change.

Reading the Environment: Olga Tokarczuk's Fiction aims at analysing the dynamics of reading fiction in the context of accelerating climate change.