Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This volume has been produced to mark the retirement of Roy Foster from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and to mark his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual.

Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human.

In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance.

Imagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a Mediterranean defined by loss, displacement, dispossession, violence, and its refusal.

The Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad's controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens.

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V.

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today?

Kafka Translated is the first book to look at the issue of translation and Kafka's work.

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form - the little magazine - and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century.

James Joyce gave a life to Ulysses which is still felt today, after the shock of its realism and the dislocation of its techniques have been absorbed into the traditions they helped to establish.

During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "e;middlebrow,"e; leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit.

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century.

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South.

This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film.

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa's socio-economic reality has actually changed.

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer.

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle.

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11's effects on literature and literature's attempts to convey 9/11.

Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.

Traces the tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until the present day.

Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet "e;production"e; prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism.

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Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system.

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels.

This book recognizes that modernist poetry can be both difficult and rewarding to teach.

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought.

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Zizek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.

Poetisch, subtil und fremdartig.

The Mahabharata, one of the most popular epics, has had a remarkable impact on literary and cultural thought in India through the centuries.

Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts.

This comprehensive introduction places the work of Julian Barnes into historical and theoretical context.

Winner of the Anna Balakian Prize 2016 Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around?

This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillen, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Mendez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics.

Christl Verduyn analyses Engel's work from a feminist literary perspective, examining Engel's concern with women's experiences and perception of the world, female identity and the social constraints on its development, female subjectivity and self, the mother-daughter relationship, and forces opposing women's artistic self-expression.

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

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen's 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called "e;the fountainhead of radical American poetics.

Why have so many prominent literary authors-from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm Tóibím-recently rewritten the canonical story of Jesus Christ?