Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present.

Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors.

This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies.

The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most important British and Irish novelists of today.

Stalin's fascination with writers was fully reciprocated as the many 'Odes to Stalin' show.

Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication.

This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.

This collection of essays concerns perceptions of the West as reflected in the work of Russian writers of the Third Wave of emigration.

The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama.

Following the recent publication of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, this study draws on a previously unavailable range of work extending from 1938 to 1983.

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world.

The Fiction of Anita Brookner is the first full-length study of this controversial contemporary writer.

A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "e;mainstream"e; of British publishing.

This collection of essays by English and American writers focuses on New York life from the perspectives of several disciplines and life experiences.

Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw.

The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works.

This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction.

Every four or five years Britain's most prominent dramatist pulls out all the stops and writes a major stage play of his own.

An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.

A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society.

The stories in this collection portray Soviet women of different ages and educational backgrounds at home and at work, in cities and villages.

This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.

This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960.

Ezra Pound belatedly conceded that T.