Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King.

Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "e;The Decay of Lying,"e; this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde.

Das herausragende Werk Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns hat weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus Resonanz gefunden.

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats's last years, that poetry which reached and held to the 'intensity' which he had striven for all his life.

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C.

Platt places Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and explores Joyce''s engagement with European fascism.

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First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.

A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state.

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values?

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin.

And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man.

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

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1963 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics on Virginia Woolf, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature.

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever.

Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers.

In this monograph Theodor Adorno's philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity - apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet's dictatorship, and the Greek military junta.

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett's pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio.

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing?

This set of three previously out-of-print volumes collects together in one place key areas of research into the genre of science fiction.

There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings.

The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history.

Arguably one of the most important American writers working today, Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books, including novels and collections of poems, short stories, and essays.

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996).

This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective.

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.

In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral.

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day.

An engaging overview of one of the most dynamically entertaining and intellectually challenging British playwrights of the past fifty years.

Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture.

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text.

From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending - emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity.

This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction.

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K.

Der Band widmet sich Praktiken der Zeugenschaft in gerichtlichen und außergerichtlichen Kontexten.

In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews.

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008.

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency.

Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.