Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create?

Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture.

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche's image of a "e;pathos of distance,"e; the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns.

This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa.

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality.

The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988.

Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups.

Edwardian Shaw covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the crucial first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance.

These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself.

This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world.

This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian author's aesthetics.

How does the theme of the other--as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme-allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts?

Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence - through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body - across the textual imaginations of both Western and Middle Eastern authors.

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism.

This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the 20th century.

This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality.

Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health.

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power.

A broad ranging introduction to the development of the German novel, first published in 2004.

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers.

Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership.

Disrupted Intersubjectivity investigates two classes of phenomena creating failures of understanding in social interaction, referred to as 'paralysis' and 'invasion.

A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives.

This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire.

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema.

Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections.

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.

This analysis of the distinctive political writings of George Orwell focuses on his concept of political power and its relevance today.

Writing in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political.

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett.

Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author's late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art.

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century.

Starving ghosts, anguished farmers, and grieving mothers.

Framing Marilynne Robinson's fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work.

This book studies a selection of works of Philippine literature written in Spanish during the American occupation of the Philippines (1902-1946).

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations.

This book aims to develop a philosophy of leadership from the fiction of C.

George Orwell is now acknowledged as one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century.

Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.