Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.

How do novels travel through time?

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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values.

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett''s writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.

This definitive book on Burroughs' decades-long cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century, including previously unpublished works.

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today.

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure.

 Con la caída de las dictaduras continentales, América Latina esperaba presenciar el ocaso de un personaje central en su historia: el patriarca político.

Natural Space In Literature: Imagination and Environment in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Poetry

With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today.

James Joyce: A Guide to Research, first published in 1982, is a selective annotated bibliography of works by and about James Joyce.

The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions.

Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity.

A close look at the extraordinary literary achievements of a popular and prolific American authorThe winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy.

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.

Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S.

A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone.

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health.

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be ';the One,' the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection.

This book traces the genealogy of 'women's fiction' in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women.

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.

In Le Carre's Landscape Tod Hoffman, a former intelligence officer, offers a unique perspective on le Carre's work.

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'.

William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet.

At the close of the nineteenth century, American youths developed a growing interest in electricity and its applications, machines, and gadgetry.

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

Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past.

Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov's shortest short stories, "e;Signs and Symbols,"e; has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote.

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical politics, that is, choreographies of social performance which emerge at the intersection of literature, art, and embodied life.

This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study.

What is African American about African American literature?

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors.

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation's literature has developed.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment's influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification.

The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality.

Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour?

Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities.

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Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day.