Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This biography contains new disclosures and interpretations of evidence, neglecting nothing significant in Hardy's early years or his later life.

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema.

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic.

An exploration of the elusive nature of representation in Plath''s poetry and the various versions of her that readers encounter.

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries.

Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom explores new and pioneering strategies for transforming current teaching practices into equitable, inclusive and immersive classrooms for all students.

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors.

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory.

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing in the English language: the author of fifteen novels, three novellas and eleven volumes of short stories, as well as plays, radio and TV adaptations and film screenplays.

Originally published in 1963.

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels.

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels?

The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as and the elements that currently aid in the recognizance of the presence of the poetic in the work of historians.

Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists' combination of historical authority and narrative art to create authentic and accessible depictions of the past.

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers.

Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond.

The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs.

Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "e;outsider"e; authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works.

Das Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über das Werk Herta Müllers in seiner ganzen thematischen Breite und Vielfalt der Genres.

Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts.

This book is a pragma-stylistic study of Ian McEwan's fiction, providing a qualitative analysis of his selected novels using (im)politeness theory.

In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, fantasies, aspirations, historical self-understanding, and political actions.

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology.

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure.

This Companion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement, with contributions from fourteen leading scholars.

Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the "e;East"e; and the "e;West"e;, this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the "e;Islamic city"e;.

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'.

This book reflects on the "e;literary"e; in literature.

Considers the avant-garde rethinking of poetic language in terms of physical speech production.

Uses the idea of embodiment to reconceptualize postwar literary history and recognize the political significance of literary modernism after 1945.

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol.

This powerful anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the many faces and shadows of terrorism.

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions.

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Reading Late Lawrence is a study of a number of the neglected fictional works of D.

While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood.

In the words of J.

Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914.

This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought.

Depression and Dysphoria in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace is the first full-length study of this critically overlooked theme, addressing a major gap in Wallace studies.

This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction.

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

This is the first book of its kind to provide an analysis of the representation of Jews in American war novels throughout the long twentieth century.

This book is a study of the relation between theatre art and ideology in the Chinese experimentations with new selfhood as a result of Ibsen's impact.

Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production.