Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices.

A Vindication of the Redhead  investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.

This book examines the representation of masculinities in contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces.

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the nonhuman.

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors.

This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment.

This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it.

This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework.

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism.

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss' and Lewis Hyde's theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.

This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written "e;after the wreck,"e; they recall instructive pasts.

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

This book shows how Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination.

This book examines how the cultural and ethical power of literature allowed writers and readers to reflect on the practice of capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US between 1890 and 1950.

This book analyses soldiers' memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany.

This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.

This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema.

This book breaks the assumption that the racial tension the in 9/11 novels lies solely in the dynamic between "e;Americans"e; and "e;terrorists.

This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

This comprehensive chronological introduction offers a detailed analysis of Rose Tremain's novels and examines the critical reception of her work.

This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life.

This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners.

Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan's defeat and unconditional surrender.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture.

This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett.

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres.

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region.

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius.

This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities.

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields-Early Modern Studies and Black Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other.

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain.

Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro's writing.

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives-cinematic, photographic, and literary-produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants.

This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson's understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist.

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W.

This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland.