Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Walt Whitman called the Orient "e;The Past!

This book demonstrates how the roles of "e;author,"e; "e;marketer,"e; and "e;reviewer"e; are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.

Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing.

Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve.

In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer.

This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna.

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "e;haunted, holy ground"e; in English and American literature for almost two centuries.

This collection of essays on Jacques Derrida spans nearly thirty years of critical thinking about Derrida's work.

Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship.

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts.

This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies.

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science.

This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandra's Bidyasundar, the first book published by a Bengali entrepreneur.

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry.

This book examines women's domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level.

This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world-from the Americas to Australia-in novels, short stories, plays, and films.

Der Band untersucht ästhetische und diskursive Formen, die in der Moderne an die Kritik des Bürgerlichen geknüpft sind.

News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war.

Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union.

This book introduces the 'Southern criminology' movement; explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools; offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions; and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from Southern settings.

Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition.

The Mineola Twins and How I Learned To Drive are mirror-image family plays about coming of age in the '60s.

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn.

These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself.

This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature.

Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO).

This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of quantum theories, and metaphysical patterns grounded in a cultural ideology.

"e;[From] a true independent, a self-declared extremist and 'desert mystic'.

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna?

Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea.

Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the 'greening of America' had passed.

James Joyce and Education is the first full-length study of education across the Joyce oeuvre.

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception.

Taking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting.

Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives.

Since it was written nearly 50 years ago, Night (1958) has changed world perception of the Holocaust experience.

Karl May – ein Name, der für Abenteuer, exotische Schauplätze und unvergessliche Helden steht.

This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war''s centennial commemoration.

Includes the plays The Wrong Side of the Park, Come as You Are and Edwin This second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London.

This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy.

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This book explores Grahame's engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), and pastoral imagery.

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction?