Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

'Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of 'postcolonialism' is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature in society and politics during this period.

Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.

This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary.

Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature.

Since 1985 Russia has experienced a dramatic cultural and social revolution.

Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies.

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.

Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction examines the fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction.

This book offers an interdisciplinary account of the relationship between criminal trials and novels in the modernist period.

American culture has often been described in terms of paradigmatic images--the wilderness, the Jeffersonian landscape of family farms, the great industrial cities at the turn of the 19th century.

Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J.

Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney's Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney's poetry.

A guide to reading modernist poetry in English: its pleasures, frustrations, powers and problems.

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's book of the same title, and Salvador Dali's paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions.

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender).

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface.

An engaging overview for students and readers of Atwood''s life, works, contexts and reception.

In seiner Erzählung "Der Tod in Venedig" beschreibt Thomas Mann zu Beginn des 20.

This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination.

For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving.

A comparative study of the imagination in literature from the Anglophone world.

In Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, Jonathan Ellis offers evidence for a redirection in Bishop studies toward a more thorough scrutiny of the links between Bishop's art and life.

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Albert Gelpi''s American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period.

Representations of violence surround us in everyday life - in news reports, films and novels - inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others.

In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.

In 1962, The Christian Century published C.

Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and leftist politics were looking for new ground.

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves.

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure.

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Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings.

This set comprises fory volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce's non-fictional writings.

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

Seamus Heaney's unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career.

In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gender, and class, black poets living in Britain developed a distinct branch of contemporary poetry.

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius.

Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18.

Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in Europe.

First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it.

The first volume of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader introduces a diverse spectrum of literary works from Perestroika to the present.