Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This study examines the children's books of three extraordinary British writers-J.

The kinship between modernism and close reading has long between taken for granted.

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage.

Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's art.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

Die Forschung hat gezeigt, dass die historischen Romane nach 1918 weniger an der Geschichte, dagegen vielmehr an der Gegenwart interessiert sind.

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies.

Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the social practices around them) since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos.

Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map.

A comprehensive and accessible overview of Salman Rushdie''s published work, his career, and the controversies that surround him.

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children's Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question- Who speaks?

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.

Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis.

The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "e;we have suffered a general loss of concepts.

This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds.

The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound.

This book illustrates how Korean American novels and poetry use anger to enact change, foregrounding the various ways it can pinpoint injustice and suggest alternatives.

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore.

This volume looks at Marx and Freud, who, though not 'Shakespeareans' in the usual academic or theatrical sense, were both deeply informed by Shakespeare's writings, and have both had enormous influence on the understanding and reception of Shakespeare.

Originally published in 1976, this publication falls into three parts: The Verbal Index, The Word Frequency Table, and The Field of Reference.

Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary,Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali,s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ,sterility,, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages.

Interpreting Susan Sontag's Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World.

This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked.

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman.

This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals.

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture.

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.

First published in 2012.

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy.

This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell.

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society.

Drawing on diverse theories and methods, this collective volume emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period.

This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation.

This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment.

Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .

Zwischen Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs, Weimarer Republik, Nationalsozialismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg, Nachkriegszeit und Bundesrepublik Ernst Jüngers Leben umspannt fast ein ganzes Jahrhundert; sein Werk spiegelt dessen Katastrophen.

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.

Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes.