Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence.

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing-authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines-from the 1910s to the 1960s.

This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J.

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace.

Time matters to all of us.

For over thirty years, the Oxford C.

An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four.

This chronology covers the whole sweep of Evelyn Waugh's varied and eventful life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his exotic travels.

This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century.

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today's most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war.

When Jon Fosse had his playwright d but with And We Shall Never Part at the National Theatre in Bergen in 1994, he was already an established author of several novels, collections of poetry and children's books.

This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing 21st-century U.

This book discusses relationships among religion, literature and ethnicity in Northern Ireland since 1967.

In prose and poetry the selections contained here reveal the personal experiences, feelings and angst of three English writers who lived through World War I.

Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an energy that has persisted.

This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity's spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today's world of ever increasing mobility and global networks.

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background.

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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 provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange.

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century.

Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction.

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa.

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction.

This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history.

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE**PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, SPECTATOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back.

Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.

Making the case that J.

As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow's Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced to this day in the Amazonian region.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O'Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during the 1950s and 1960s, this books explores the interwoven relationship between his urban poetics and the urban culture of New York, seeking to shed light on poetic concept and its cultural relevance.