Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today.

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides new ways of reading the corpus of British children's literature from the 20th century.

This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury.

The first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn's reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape.

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience.

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience.

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bola o, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction.

This is the first full-length book on the work of 'global Igbo' writer Chris Abani.

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.

The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means.

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity and connections across Arab world contexts.

This resource compiles and locates biographical and bibliographical information of over 700 prominent Latin American dramatists of the late 20th century and their plays in 20 different countries, and it lists over 7,000 plays arranged by country and by author.

This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which violence and trauma are (re)enacted, (re)presented, (re)imagined, reconciled, and consumed through various mediums in the region.

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis.

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F.

Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, Farhana H.

Mary Claire Kendall grapples with Hemingway's faith and does so commendably.

Mary Claire Kendall grapples with Hemingway's faith and does so commendably.

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon.

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun.

Sergei Jessenin, der als "letzter Dichter des alten Russlands" bezeichnet wird, prägte die russische Literatur des frühen 20.

In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being 'the most important Irish poet since Yeats'.

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the role that Shakespeare plays in this identity formation.

Was geschieht, wenn zwei der größten philosophischen Figuren der Literatur aufeinandertreffen?

British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in Britain from 1945 up to and beyond the Brexit referendum of 2016, combining approaches from the fields of history, English and cultural studies.

In den wilden Steppen und den heiligen Klöstern der Ukraine entstand eine Literatur, die ihresgleichen sucht.

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus on Shakespeare.

This volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold approach.

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative.

Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute both a record of literary writings from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as an overview of the broader international role of Chinese writing in translation.

Vital Issues presents an annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent American feminist intellectual during the early twentieth century, contributed in 1904 to the Boston Woman's Journal, the leading journal of the US woman's movement.

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.

Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus on Shakespeare.

Gunter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism.

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.

Gérard de Nerval – ein Name, der für die Essenz der französischen Romantik steht und zugleich die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele offenbart.

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front.