Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times.

This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency.

This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce's non-fictional writings.

This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory.

This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means.

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings.

This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J.

Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens.

This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged.

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern.

This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research.

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit.

The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes's proposition that 'every child is nature's chance to correct culture's error.

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today's transmedia storytelling.

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games.

Poetry and Work offers a timely and much-needed re-examination of the relationship between work and poetry.

This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis's London Fields, Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Pat Barker's Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age.

This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns.

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture.

This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks-both literal and figurative- we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy.

This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present.

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism.

This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment.

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction.

This book of collected essays approaches Beckett's work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large.

This Pivot reconsiders the controversial literary figure of Lin Shu and the debate surrounding his place in the history of Modern Chinese Literature.

This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature.

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Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow.

Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "e;Great American Catholic Author,"e; but this was not always the case.

In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during which it thrived.

What is empiricism and what could it be?

This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked.

This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton's widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century.

Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders.

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time.

Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe.

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This Reader's Guide brings together, in an approachable form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson.

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

Iris Murdoch produced twenty-six novels in forty years.

Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

This book engages with Margaret Atwood's work and its adaptations.

This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career.