Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts.

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts.

This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

This is Volume IV of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W.

Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis.

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C.

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes.

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities.

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing-two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities.

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles.

This book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields's experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.

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

A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.

This unique study is the first monograph on the manifold intertextual relations and poetic echoes between Shakespeare and Beckett.

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century.

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century.

Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States.

Der von den chilenischen Physiologen und Neurobiologen H.

Stanisław Lem gilt als "Exportschlager" der polnischen Literaturszene.

This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters - freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness - and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism.

This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters - freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness - and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism.

This book focuses on health humanities in application.

Born in rural Mississippi, the grandson of slaves, Richard Wright overcame every social obstacle, including poverty, racism, and limited education to achieve literary recognition as the creator of some of America's most powerful Black literature.

One of America's most noted contemporary novelists, John Irving has created a body of fiction of extraordinary range, moving with ease from romance to fairytale to thriller.

A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.

This unique study is the first monograph on the manifold intertextual relations and poetic echoes between Shakespeare and Beckett.

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

During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading African-American playwright and drama anthologist.

Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce - all published during and influenced by the country's neoliberal era.

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems.

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems.

The book offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, exploring texts often left out of previous critical accounts.

Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.

Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.

The book offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, exploring texts often left out of previous critical accounts.

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world?

This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature.