Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the role that Shakespeare plays in this identity formation.

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative.

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists.

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.

Peter Boxall offers here a powerful and singular exploration of the imaginative possibilities of literature in a dramatically changing world.

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative.

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour.

This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin.

This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin.

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.

Ha pasado más de un siglo y medio desde que un paseo en barca con las niñas Liddell inspirara a Lewis Carroll para escribir 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).

Los acontecimientos que caracterizaron la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina (1976-1983), sobre todo en relación con la violación de los derechos humanos, constituyen una zona problemática que la narrativa interroga, revisa, vuelve a pensar.

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bola o, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction.

Flourishing during the first 2 decades of the 20th century, British Modernism gave birth to some of the world's most influential literary works.

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The now legendary character created by Leslie Charteris has survived nearly three-quarters of a century of perilous action and narrow escapes with nary a hair out of place nor the slightest jolt to his jauntily tipped halo.

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre.

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience.

Los once trabajos que componen este volumen nacen del interés suscitado por la reescritura, especialmente de la reescritura del Quijote en América Latina, y están inspirados en las ponencias presentadas en las Jornadas Internacionales "Reescrituras latinoamericanas del Quijote" (Jerusalén, 1 y 2 de diciembre, 2021), llevadas a cabo por los docentes y estudiantes de los seminarios de los Departamentos de Letras de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, y la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Israel.

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry.

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry.

This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative.

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet.

This book reflects the nascent sensibilities at work in literature emanating from Northeast India.

Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the women's suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the state's surveillance activities.

Investigating why Hurstons writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be appreciated years after her deathGenevieve West examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurstons writing and the reception of her work to explain why Hurston died in obscure poverty only to be reclaimed as an important Harlem Renaissance writer decades after her death.

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.

In einer Welt, die von Männern dominiert wurde, war Mileva Marić eine Ausnahmeerscheinung.