Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world.

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century-a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse.

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women's writing through the twentieth century-a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973.

Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics.

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi's thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.

This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world.

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women's writing through the twentieth century-a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self.

This book provides the first in-depth examination of philosophy and feminism in the works of Wittgenstein, exploring the diverse approaches within this emerging field The four thematic parts are accompanied by an introduction from the editors.

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi's thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.

The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity.

'Amis has no faults.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973.

The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity.

Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E.

Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality and Friendship offers a sophisticated and original lens for understanding transnational African identities and their experiences of community, hospitality, and friendship in contemporary urban fiction.

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E.

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense.

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74).

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74).

Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors.

Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies.

This book argues that metafiction should not be understood as a self-contained textual technique but as an active practice.

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte.

This book argues that metafiction should not be understood as a self-contained textual technique but as an active practice.

The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging.

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte.

This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles na gCopaleen (real name Brian O'Nolan, though also known as Flann O'Brien), from 1940 to 1966.

This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles na gCopaleen (real name Brian O'Nolan, though also known as Flann O'Brien), from 1940 to 1966.

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.

Traumerzählungen bilden einen entscheidenden Teil unseres Wissens über die Shoah.

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice.

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice.

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention to literary texts written from peripheral and often overlooked cultural spaces.

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention to literary texts written from peripheral and often overlooked cultural spaces.

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkner's lesser known and studied works.

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.

Do You Feel It Too?

One of the first books to examine Hannah Arendt's work by putting it in conversation with a series of literary works from writers such as Melville, Brecht, Conrad, and Sarraute, this book addresses the main puzzles of Arendt's work and offers nuanced and innovative analyses of her strengths and shortcomings.

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkner's lesser known and studied works.

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In Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, Margaret Leonard says, "e;Never mind about algebra here.

Käte Hamburgers wichtigstes Werk Die Logik der Dichtung entstand während ihres Exils in Schweden und ist von Flucht und Vertreibung geprägt.

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.

General Editor's Preface.

The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since the Historikerstreit of the 1980s.