Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism.

African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change.

What is the role of the author in times of crisis?

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction?

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad's central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim.

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing.

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell's Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell's novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment.

First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature.

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

This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels - American, English, French, German, and Italian - from the past 50 years.

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour.

Enric Valor (1911-2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century.

This is the first comparative transnational approach to the language of absolute war and the literature on World War II.

How unfair', wrote one national newspaper in 1951, 'that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.

Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer.

Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Rio de la Plata region of South America-Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar.

The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic.

At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever before.

A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction.

Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro.

This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture.

This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean.

During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters.

This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates.

This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time.

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature.

"e;The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation.

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy, as well as how the genres' engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy.

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia.

With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri.

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber's ground-breaking article, "e;Popular Arts in Africa"e;, which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories.

The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engaged in comparative literary studies and addresses a central and highly important question about the discipline: if Eurocentrism has been integral to comparative literature, and if the world we live in is undergoing radical changes, then how can, or should, the discipline change to overcome this problem, of the discipline as well as of literary history, to accommodate non-Western traditions?

This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century.

¿Es 2666 de Roberto Bolaño una novela total?

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author.

"e;During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups.

Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history.

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace.

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics.

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel.