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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.