Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist.

Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist.

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent.

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent.

The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies.

Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies.

In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life.

In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life.

In the wake of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett wrote some of the most significant literary works of the 20th century.

In the wake of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett wrote some of the most significant literary works of the 20th century.

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War.

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War.

Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century.

Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century.

Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems.

Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems.

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize

The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters.

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize

The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters.

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged.

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged.

Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present.

Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present.

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism.

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies.

Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies.

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century.

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century.

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule.

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule.

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind.

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind.

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels.

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid?

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid?

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before.

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before.

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road) are tragedies.

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road) are tragedies.

Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and although seemingly opposite the two impulses have long been intertwined.

Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and although seemingly opposite the two impulses have long been intertwined.

Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world.

Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world.