Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

A revised edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study of the novels, stories, essays and poetry of American author Barbara Kingsolver.

A revised edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study of the novels, stories, essays and poetry of American author Barbara Kingsolver.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time.

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, and as a form of nation building that would reinforce Britishness and ancestral belonging.

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, and as a form of nation building that would reinforce Britishness and ancestral belonging.

James Joyce, a highly acclaimed Irish author, delves into the complexities of human nature and experiences in his groundbreaking works 'Finnegans Wake' and 'Exiles'.

This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.

The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers' writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience.

This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge.

In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper.

In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper.

Discussions of Coward's achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography.

Discussions of Coward's achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography.

This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Quebec.

This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Quebec.

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Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies.

Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies.

Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical locations.

Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical locations.

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics.

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics.

This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south.

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.

Norman Maclean's "e;A River Runs through It"e;: The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean or any of his works.

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today's most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair.

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing cliches about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism?

This book offers a discussion of seven "e;canonical"e; novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), introducing radical new readings, which are offered not as ultimate and conclusive "e;solutions"e; of the textual puzzles, but as possibilities to engage with the text creatively, to enrich the critical consensus and restore interpretative freedom to the readers.

This book offers a discussion of seven "e;canonical"e; novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), introducing radical new readings, which are offered not as ultimate and conclusive "e;solutions"e; of the textual puzzles, but as possibilities to engage with the text creatively, to enrich the critical consensus and restore interpretative freedom to the readers.

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing cliches about the operations of the European Christian missionaries whether Protestant or Catholic in Africa, and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

A Mind Purified by Suffering: Evgenia Ginzburgs Whirlwind Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russias most important classics of Gulag literature.