Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

How ordinary forms of writingincluding manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazinesshaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire.

Mario Vargas Llosa's intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical fiction.

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.

The First World War gave new and vital impetus to the ancient idea that books could heal.

British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.

Many cyberattacks begin with a lure: a seemingly innocent message designed to establish trust with a target to obtain sensitive information or compromise a computer system.

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This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.

This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analysing a selection of Japanese novels and a film.

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle.

En su obra literaria, Abel Posse (1934-2023) ambicionaba forjar un lenguaje narrativo propio que conjugase lo cultural, lo filosófico, lo político y lo poético.

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.

This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity.

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.

Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world.

The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century.

Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel.

The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in.

First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidas provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidas to the Indian peasant masses.

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare.

The fin de siecle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature.

This engrossing, ground-breaking book challenges the long-held conviction that prior to the second divorce referendum of 1995 Irish people could not obtain a divorce that gave them the right to remarry.

Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Virginia Woolf's collection, 'Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works', is a comprehensive anthology encompassing the entirety of Woolf's literary output, showcasing her innovative and influential writing style.

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour.

Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers.

The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.

Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey.

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence.

This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus.

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City.

First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidas provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidas to the Indian peasant masses.

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Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement.

Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers.

Operation Kalulu, the story of the Hare and the Well, was the first of the retold folk stories by Steve Chimombo.

The Bird Boy's Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story.

Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics ,celebrates the work of Abdilatif Abdalla, one of Kenya,s most well-known poets and a committed political activist.

Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s.

A woman yearns for self-assurance to be a woman of dreams, of song and poetry.

On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon,s foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus.

This prolific collection of essays, with contributions from scholars from across several disciplines, on the practice and implications of naming,Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization,explores diverse concerns in onomastics, such as cultural and ethnic implications as well as individual identity formation processes in the age of Globalization and extends these to a variety of contemporary theories of appreciation and internationalization.