Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics.

Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan.

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past.

Menschliche Katastrophen wie der Holocaust beschäftigen uns noch weiter.

American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55: The politics of enchantment discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers.

As American Indian writers frequently remind their readers, storytellers wield formidable power to affect the earth and its inhabitants.

A 2020 Prose Award FinalistWhat do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame?

This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement.

Explores connections between the social and political upheavals of the interwar years and British literature in that period.

Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment.

The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century.

The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas.

Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O''Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day''s Journey Into Night.

This book embraces philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens''s place within Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, and representation.

African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest.

Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community.

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field.

This book examines how the Irish environmental movement, which began gaining momentum in the 1970s, has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers, artists, and musicians.

Worlds Within tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century.

The Theatre of Caryl Churchill documents and analyses the major plays and productions of one of Britain's greatest and most innovative playwrights.

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G.

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present.

The critical essays in this volume, by leading authorities on D.

According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times.

Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer.

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that translation plays in the complex and necessarily incomplete process of decolonisation.

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines.

A Vindication of the Redhead  investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.

This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame.

This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers.

This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes.

The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.

This work investigates women's emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.

This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "e;literary"e; interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greenes novels through the changing relationship between writer and protagonists.

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today.

This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett's visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word.

This collection brings together the best of C.

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law.

The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century.

In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St.