Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

An overview of the great achievements of modern poets in Britain in the twentieth century.

Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity.

Newly commissioned essays explore the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre.

Isabel Allende garnered immediate attention and international acclaim with the 1982 publication of House of Spirits.

This edited collection of 14 essays presents the most enlightening research findings on Mo Yan and his novels.

Written by the author of "e;The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper"e; and "e;Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays"e;, this is a collection of critical essays on Seamus Heaney.

Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up.

The book examines the salient concepts and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural movement.

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants.

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.

This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi.

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H.

Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention.

Great-granddaughter of Minerve, first woman of the Guadeloupean branch of the Lougandor family to be freed from slavery in 1848, the elderly Telum e tells the story of her own difficult life and that of her ancestors.

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense.

Wie kann die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus bewahrt werden - an der Schwelle des Verlusts der letzten Zeitzeugen?

Ein Überblick über das Werk Elfriede Jelineks.

In Writing After War, John Limon develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, in order to make sense of American literary history in particular.

Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text offers the reader the first major critical study in English of one of Britain's most inventive, playful and significant writers of the twentieth century.

This Companion gives an overview of Heaney''s career, with detailed readings of his major publications.

This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers.

At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having it All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France.

James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States.

This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors.

As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed.

'Postmodernism' and 'feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact.

A study of surprising similarities in their lives and works “adds an important element to the existing discussion” of two twentieth-century literary icons (Studies in American Humor).

This book offers a direct, actionable plan CMOs can use to map out initiatives that are properly sequenced and designed for success-regardless of where their marketing organization is in the process.

Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar.

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays.

Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the 'rule of law'.

Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.

American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55: The politics of enchantment discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers.

This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T.

Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years.

The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions.

This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.

Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism.

We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection-as something that darkens and obscures.

Half a century ago, Norman Jeffares wrote the definitive biography of W.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past.

Horst Bienek (1930-1990) wird 1951 vom Staatssicherheitsdienst in Potsdam verhaftet und von einem Sowjetischen Militärtribunal zu zwanzig Jahren Zwangsarbeit im stalinistischen Lager "Workuta" zwischen Eismeer und Nordural verurteilt.

Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre.

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory.

Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically.