Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times ';The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin.

Peter Carey is one of Australia's finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public.

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing's Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade.

The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative.

This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English.

This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North.

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing's Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade.

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Fiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production.

This book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Colson Whitehead's fiction, positioning him as a key figure in both African American literature and the global "e;turn to genre"e;.

This book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Colson Whitehead's fiction, positioning him as a key figure in both African American literature and the global "e;turn to genre"e;.

Long recognized as one of America's foremost men of letters, Robert Penn Warren continues to dazzle us with his many-sided genius.

Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity.

While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "talking cure" of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature.

With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life.

Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States.

James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers.

Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework.

While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce.

A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 and 1971: Francisco Brines; Eladio Cabaero; Angel Crespo; Gloria Fuertes; Jaime Gil de Biedma; Angel Gonzlez; Manuel Mantero; Claudio Rodrguez; Carlos Sahagn; and Jos Angel Valente.

The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one.

Die Kultur des Gehens entwickelt sich parallel zur mechanisierten Fortbewegung in Eisenbahn und Automobil und knüpft an die alte Tradition an, die zwischen Gehen, Denken und Schreiben Korrespondenzen entdeckt.

A leading figure in modern southern literature, described by Newsweek as "one of the best American storytellers," Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New Yorker and his widely read volumes from the 1980s, The Old Forest and Other Stories and A Summons to Memphis.

The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Prez Galds's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible.

Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences.