Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts.

This book shows how early twentieth-century British literature responded to the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world.

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns.

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Literary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with changing meaning.

The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry.

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction.

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading.

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.

Victoria Bazin examines the poetry of Marianne Moore as it is shaped by and responsive to the experience of being a modern woman, of living in the aftermath of the First World War, of being interpellated as a modern consumer and of writing in "e;the age of mechanical reproduction.

Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction.

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

The book studies Alice Munro's inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction.

Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.

Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941): his exposure to Latin America.

Best known today as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker also wrote several other works, including The Jewel of Seven Stars, Lady Athlyne, and The Lair of the White Worm.

'I've never kept a journal', Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ' - or, rather, I've never known if I should keep one'.

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.

What is tragedy?

British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism.

This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006.

The name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today.

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton.

Edith Ayrton Zangwill's 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century.

Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century.

Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epilogo dialogado con la escritora Maria Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relacion con lo sagrado y su constante interpelacion, la memoria de la inmigracion, la presencia de figuras femeninas cuestionadoras del discurso masculino hegemonico o de otros personajes marginales que resignifican la historia oficial, los siempre cuestionados y cuestionables rasgos autobiograficos en su obra a partir de las figuras parentales o de una posible cartografia de la intimidad, la problematica identitaria a traves de los personajes que se ubican en un borde sospechoso entre dos mundos y el encuentro armonioso de diferentes esteticas, discursos y generos en el seno de sus obras.

In 1857 the trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire for offending against religion and public morality drew attention to the features we now associate with literary modernism; but instead of winning praise for their innovations they were indicted for "e;ideological crimes.

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape.

The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels.

Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech.

The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama.

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory.

Perfect for fans and scholars alike, this Companion explores cricket''s origins, global reach, iconic personalities and enduring popularity.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals.

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism.

This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture.

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.

This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys.

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers.

Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene.