Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyces timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind.

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction.

Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory.

Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F.

With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.

Considers the avant-garde rethinking of poetic language in terms of physical speech production.

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy-a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J.

Der Band rekonstruiert den Lebenslauf des aus der Berliner jüdischen Gesellschaft stammenden und 1933 nach Paris und in die USA emigrierten Rudolf Bodländer (1903-1988).

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion.

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers.

Margaret Atwood is an internationally renowned, highly versatile author whose work creatively explores what it means to be human through genres ranging from feminist fable to science fiction and Gothic romance.

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution.

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline.

A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters.

The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era.

One of the twentieth century’s most important poets, W.

A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz.

This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C.

In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War.

An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front.

In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America.

George Santayana was unique in his contribution to American culture.

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency.

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary.

Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws.

This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T.

Reading the Fire engages Americas first literatures, traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage.

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.

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From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new.

The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask.

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social history, while tracing the relationship of modernism’s secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it.

A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today.

In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War.

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In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "e;including 'and' and 'the.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars—such as French patois, local Italian dialects, and the Irish language—in favor of major metropolitan languages such as French, Italian, and English.

This literary biography is "e;a story of obsession and the search for pure childhood .

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events.

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.

In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A.

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference.

This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing.

How English has become a language of the people in Indiaone that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today.

This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present.

This book is about the role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian are currently playing in the construction of Irish identities.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.