Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian)

Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays.

What happens when two women love the same man?

Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York.

Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers.

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective.

Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries.

Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore.

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.

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

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In this volume of writings from Bangla and Urdu literature, editors Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta raise issues of language, identity, nationhood and varied aspects of feminism and women's writings in the Indian subcontinent.

Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration.

This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series.

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Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.

This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction.

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century.

Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature.

Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize.

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition.

The resurgence of "e;world literature"e; as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture?

The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender and social justice.

William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner's fiction.

Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a masterpiece of Italian literature.

In Trespassing Boundaries , ten contemporary Woolf scholars discuss a broad range of Woolf's short stories.

The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook.

An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century''s most important writers.

Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived.

In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States.

This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography's place in the museum was not only continually questioned but also continually redefined.

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century?

From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algar n and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945.

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience.

Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history-meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time-and develop a more robust conception of and concrete practice of hope.

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South.

This collection analyzes and explains the central contexts and themes relevant to Thomas Pynchon''s fiction.