Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

The book addresses students and professors interested in comparative literature and the complex problematic of modernity/postmodernity, hermeneutics, literary, and cultural theory within the past few decades of the 20th century.

This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works.

Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation.

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context.

Introducing the dynamic study of a literary period stretching from 1900 to the Second World War, the book reflects the exciting mix of European avant-garde, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and regional voices within Britain.

This book provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh, placing his fiction in historical and theoretical context.

Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque.

Is literature dangerous?

In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies-socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist-and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts.

In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial Day speeches and burial rituals.

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature.

Is literature dangerous?

Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945.

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Girls in French and Francophone Literature and Film is a collection of essays focusing on constructions of girlhood in French and Francophone Literature and Film from the late-Nineteenth to the early-Twenty-First centuries.

Presenting work from scholars of various ranks and locations-including Canada, Romania, Taiwan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the UK, and the USA-this volume offers critical perspectives on what is often considered the most important poem of literary modernism: T.

The essays in this volume deal with the complexities of race in the Asia-Pacific context.

In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.

This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns.

For decades postwar Austrian literature has been measured against and moulded into a series of generic categories and grand cultural narratives, from nostalgic 'restoration' literature of the 1950s through the socially critical 'anti-Heimat' novel to recent literary reckonings with Austria's Nazi past.

This book explores the author's award-winning novels while also engaging her non-fiction.

Face a un reel qui avait atteint une violence innommable et par defaut de consensus historique, les romancieres algeriennes, fatalement ebranlees par la recrudescence de la violence en Algerie avec la montee de l'integrisme islamiste des annees 1990, se sont armees de leur plume pour combattre cet obscurantisme impetueux.

From Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers.

What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke?

Since its publication in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has won global critical and popular acclaim.

These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms 'cultural trauma' and 'personal trauma' intertwine in postcolonial fiction.

Thousands of diverse museums, including art galleries and heritage sites, exist around the world today and they draw millions of people, audiences who come to view the exhibitions and artefacts and equally importantly, to learn from them about the world and themselves.

Philosophical work can be analyzed from two points of view, the historical and the systematic one.

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster storiesBefore World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories written in an elaborate and highly allusive form of prose.

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster storiesBefore World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories written in an elaborate and highly allusive form of prose.

A short, blistering gut punch of a novel, Jackson Alone is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender - a frank exploration of identity, race, and queerness in contemporary Japan.

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Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people.

Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.

The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are F.

An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.

Joseph Conrad is one of the great figures in the tradition of the novel.

Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the insularity imposed by war and the hegemony of the national centre in the period 1922-1952.

A spirited defence of Tolkien's mythological creation and its increasing relevance for the real world.

Adopting the term "e;new death,"e; which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death.

In response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief.

Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing constitutes an explicit answer to the urgent call for a comparative study of American autobiography.

Translated from the original Kindheit, written in 1958 and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition makes this remarkable work available to a much-deserved wider audience.

Pete Hautman is an author who likes to tackle big ideas-from addiction and psychosis to the nature of belief and what the world is coming to-in his fiction for teen readers.

Since her first book, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, was published in 1978, Robin McKinley has enchanted young adult readers for more than thirty years.