Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade.

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature.

Ausgehend von exemplarischen Werken (deutsch-)jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren nach 1945 loten die BeiträgerInnen den vielstimmigen Resonanzraum aus, in dem unterschiedliche Formen der Rückkehr nach Deutschland oder Österreich beschrieben werden.

This collection of essays by one of Africa's leading scholars examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context.

This engrossing, ground-breaking book challenges the long-held conviction that prior to the second divorce referendum of 1995 Irish people could not obtain a divorce that gave them the right to remarry.

Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?

Originally published in 1985, this volume follows others in the series.

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva.

This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media.

Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place.

How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature?

Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry.

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity.

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction.

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

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.

Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America's character.

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando the special squads, composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide.

This book is a study of the relation between theatre art and ideology in the Chinese experimentations with new selfhood as a result of Ibsen's impact.

A comprehensive critical approach to Ireland''s greatest living playwright, first published in 2006.

We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others.

This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s.

This volume examines the idea of India as it emerges in the writing of its anglophone elite, post-2000.

Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (Volume 1) offers a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky: Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Loseff, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Tomas Venclova, Viktor Krivulin, Alexander Kushner, and Elena Shvarts.

Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys.

Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane.

Beginning with the publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 and concluding with the appearance of The Last Battle in 1956, C.

Covering a range of texts from prominent feminist writers, this book examines notions of utopia in twenty-first-century speculative literature.

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation.

This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust''s work.

Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C.

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture.

Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers - John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane - who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred.

The most authoritative critical edition to date of Conrad''s only major novel from 1914 to 1918, The Shadow-Line: A Confession.

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.

Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history.

This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparative reading of modern Irish and Scottish poetry.

With essays on a range of contemporary writers, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.

Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states.

This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole.