Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice?

A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism.

Drawing from recent research that seeks to expand our understanding of modernism, this volume offers practical pedagogical approaches for teaching modernist literature and culture in the twenty-first century classroom.

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre.

The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived?

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?

A comprehensive collection of critical essays on the life and work of Henry James.

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

This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film.

Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature.

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This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism.

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism.

George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him.

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran.

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 Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literatures of the modernist period.

One of the most popular contemporary authors, Kazuo Ishiguro has so far produced six highly regarded novels which have won him international acclaim and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Award and an OBE for Services to Literature.

The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age.

Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works.

This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world.

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The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry.

The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage.

As the first study to examine the concept of uncertainty of meaning as it relates to modern and contemporary literature and literary theory, Literary Theories of Uncertainty demonstrates how this notion functions as a literary feature, narrative device and theoretical concept in 20th and 21st-century texts.

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.

This volume is the first to anchor Nabokov''s work within the historical, intellectual, cultural and political contexts of his time.

A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.

This book comprehensively surveys Philip Roth's published and unpublished works, focusing on the thematic unity which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born of that memory.

A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

The organized women's movement in Austria-Hungary became increasingly important with the rise of modernism and feminist concerns ranging from women's legal and political rights, access to education, professional opportunities, economic independence, and sexual freedom found expression in print.

This charts the emergence of British writers who assimilated the experimentation of the modernists in a realist tradition, also crafting their own distinctive literary voice.

"Vierzig Jahre, und mein Werk ist der Abgesang des Jahrtausends", schrieb Bertolt Brecht 1920.

This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers.

In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' - where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' - Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction.

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

While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity.

This book examines a wide range of contemporary Russian writers whose work, after the demise of Communism, became more authoritative in debates on Russia's character, destiny, and place in the world.