This book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Colson Whitehead's fiction, positioning him as a key figure in both African American literature and the global "e;turn to genre"e;.
Magical Realism in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Fiction: The Global Supernatural offers a much-needed re-evaluation of magical realism, moving beyond traditional postcolonial frameworks to explore its vibrant evolution in the 21st century.
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931-1965 is a critical analysis of the construction, consolidation, and regulation of post-colonial Irish masculinity as evidenced by Irish fiction published during the mid-twentieth century.
Magical Realism in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Fiction: The Global Supernatural offers a much-needed re-evaluation of magical realism, moving beyond traditional postcolonial frameworks to explore its vibrant evolution in the 21st century.
This book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Colson Whitehead's fiction, positioning him as a key figure in both African American literature and the global "e;turn to genre"e;.
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931-1965 is a critical analysis of the construction, consolidation, and regulation of post-colonial Irish masculinity as evidenced by Irish fiction published during the mid-twentieth century.
This 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today.
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity.
While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "e;talking cure"e; of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature.
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw's own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces.
Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887-1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.
Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States.
Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework.
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the sf (speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore) genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions - folklore, mythology, children's and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity; and a theoretical basis of Caribbean futurism as an esthetic practice reflecting not just future but also past and present experiences of Caribbean people.
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw's own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces.
While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce.
A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Cabanero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel Gonzalez; Manuel Mantero; Claudio Rodriguez; Carlos Sahagun; and Jose Angel Valente.
Die Kultur des Gehens entwickelt sich parallel zur mechanisierten Fortbewegung in Eisenbahn und Automobil und knüpft an die alte Tradition an, die zwischen Gehen, Denken und Schreiben Korrespondenzen entdeckt.
This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding that is "e;situated"e;.
A leading figure in modern southern literature, described by Newsweek as "e;one of the best American storytellers,"e; Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New Yorker and his widely read volumes from the 1980s, The Old Forest and Other Stories and A Summons to Memphis.
The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Perez Galdos's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible.
Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences.
Originally published in 1969, in Shaw - "e;The Chucker Out"e; Allan Chappelow quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years' research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better understanding of Shaw's controversial character and his paradoxical attitude to life - with reference particularly to certain fallacies and misconceptions voiced by the villagers of Ayot St.
Andrey Bely, novelist, essayist, theoretician, critic, and poet, was a central figure in the Russian Symbolist movement of the 1920s, the most important literary movement in Russia in this century.
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era serves as an essential window for international audiences to understand the rapid development of China over more than three decades and offers a critical interpretation of Chinese literature during this time.
Rights War tracks how the human rights framework is weaponized against the oppressed, and it makes the case for the central place of literature in understanding this seizure of narrative control.
