Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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

Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc.

Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists.

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.

Peter Boxall offers here a powerful and singular exploration of the imaginative possibilities of literature in a dramatically changing world.

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

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

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour.

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro's fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters - their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and friendship.

This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin.

This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin.

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter.

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyzes the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

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

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.

Ha pasado más de un siglo y medio desde que un paseo en barca con las niñas Liddell inspirara a Lewis Carroll para escribir 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).

Los acontecimientos que caracterizaron la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina (1976-1983), sobre todo en relación con la violación de los derechos humanos, constituyen una zona problemática que la narrativa interroga, revisa, vuelve a pensar.

Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje's Fiction is a comprehensive study of the novels of the Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, Michael Ondaatje.

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period.

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.

Flourishing during the first 2 decades of the 20th century, British Modernism gave birth to some of the world's most influential literary works.

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy.

This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of "e;negative"e; affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on postcolonial studies, First Nations studies, cognitive cultural studies, cognitive historicism, reader response theory, postcolonial feminist studies, and trauma studies.

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The now legendary character created by Leslie Charteris has survived nearly three-quarters of a century of perilous action and narrow escapes with nary a hair out of place nor the slightest jolt to his jauntily tipped halo.

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre.

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience.

This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan.

Los once trabajos que componen este volumen nacen del interés suscitado por la reescritura, especialmente de la reescritura del Quijote en América Latina, y están inspirados en las ponencias presentadas en las Jornadas Internacionales "Reescrituras latinoamericanas del Quijote" (Jerusalén, 1 y 2 de diciembre, 2021), llevadas a cabo por los docentes y estudiantes de los seminarios de los Departamentos de Letras de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, y la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Israel.

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

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry.

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry.