Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history.
If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction?
Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.
Cristina Campo es el principal y definitivo pseudónimo de la escritora italiana Vittoria Guerrini, nacida en 1923 en Bolonia y fallecida en Roma en 1977.
Available in paperback for the first time, Gareth Griffith's book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the twentieth century.
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.
This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country s intellectual life more broadly.
Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms.
As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature.
The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms.
Das Werk Arnold Stadlers, das sich aus der lebendigen Sprache, aus dem Konkreten und Ambivalenten der heimatlichen Lebenswelt speist, hat Teil an dem Diskurs über Zugehörigkeit, über Angekommen- und Angenommen-Sein in einer globalisierten Welt.
Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature.
This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves.
American literary works written in the heyday of modernism between the 1890s and 1940s were playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics.
Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society.
Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive.
With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period.
