Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre since the end of World War II.

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature.

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their ownTackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected.

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.

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

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart.

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D.

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

This is a book about translation and literary influence.

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

Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the face of interference and even veiled threats of violence from the Soviet government.

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors' life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century.

The idea of "e;Utopia"e; has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia.

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.

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

Provides a conceptually coherent understanding of ''modernism'' to incorporate multiple genres and individuals in transatlantic and pan-European locations.

Focuses on notable journalists-turned-novelists who have worked on the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry.

Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America.

This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is 'what is being human?

This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change.

Im Unterschied zu den Sechzigern haben die siebziger Jahre keine gute Presse.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.

Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds.

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The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging.

What is experimental literature?

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors' crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image.

Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career.

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "e;no constants with regard to lesbianism,"e; except that lesbians prefer women.

This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the individual subjective experience of trauma on the other, proposing that it be thought as a potentially productive tension.

In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "e;pagan criticism,"e; which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular.

This book offers an assessment of Sartre as an exemplary figure in the evolving political and cultural landscape of post-1945 France.

With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.

Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page.

From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift?

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks.

This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom.

Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial.