Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Post-war Italy examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.

Over the last 20 years, Jacqueline Wilson has published well over 100 titles and has become firmly established in the landscape of Children's Literature.

The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field.

Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts.

Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature.

Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing.

This intriguing study examines the truth behind the myths and misconceptions that defined the Roaring Twenties, as portrayed through the popular literary works of the time.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day.

Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside France and Switzerland.

From The Man Within (1929) to The Captain and the Enemy (1988), Graham Greene engaged in a lifelong dialogue with Joseph Conrad's political, psychological and melodramatic fictions.

This book maps literary trends in Latin America during the period 1870-1930, while considering the global circulation of people and goods.

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre.

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective.

First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T.

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present.

This volume examines the concerns – political, literary, and identity-based – of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi- purpose collection on this important topic.

Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic.

This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers.

This book revisits Jean Rhys's ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well.

Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory.

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Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements.

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature.

This collection analyzes and explains the central contexts and themes relevant to Thomas Pynchon''s fiction.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho.

Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers.

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.

Die Literaturgeschichte der 70er Jahre, faszinierend und facettenreich als Zeit- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte erzählt.

Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

Ödön von Horváth war in seinem dramatischen und epischen Werk der Chronist seiner Zeit.

'China's first iconic modern intellectual.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

This book meditates on the conceptual underpinnings of slavery and investigates its impact on other areas of Western culture.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain.

Horror isn't what it used to be.