Literary studies: from c 2000

A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird.

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats-who were his sometime friends and collaborators.

Bürgerkriege sind extrem gewalttätige Ereignisse, mit denen sich eine Gesellschaft im Nachhinein – oft über Generationen – in einem Erinnerungsdiskurs auseinanderzusetzen hat.

The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers.

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.

Die Frankfurter Buchmesse von 2009 liegt einige Jahre zurück.

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s.

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today.

Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer.

Five Irish Women is comprised of five interlinked portraits of exceptional Irish women from various fields - literature, journalism, music, politics - who have achieved outstanding reputations since the 1960s: Edna O'Brien, Sinead O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences.

This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond.

En este libro, Raúl Verduzco explora tres aspectos fundamentales en la literatura latinoamericana de finales del siglo XX: el sujeto en sus múltiples acepciones, la memoria como herramienta y eje, y la resistencia como uno de los complementos de la memoria misma.

Dieser Band versammelt die weniger bekannten Erzählungen von Ernst Jünger.

Mid-Century Gothic defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from 1945-55.

Die Legende des Golems, eines aus Lehm geschaffenen Wesens, das durch mystische Rituale zum Leben erweckt wird, ist tief in der jüdischen Tradition verwurzelt.