Literary studies: from c 2000

In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to share in the preoccupations and tensions of particular historical moments.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists.

Literatur, die sich in gesellschaftlichen und politischen Prozessen kritisch zu Wort meldet, ist seit 1989 auch in Deutschland wieder deutlicher zu vernehmen.

The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region's irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity.

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.

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

Ausgehend von Marx' Theorie der entfremdeten Arbeit, der Ideologiekritik der Frankfurter Schule, Sartres Konzept der mauvaise-foi sowie aktuellen Studien fragt Cora Rok nach alten und neuen Formen der Entfremdung in der Arbeitswelt des 21.

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

American literature and Irish culture, 1910-55: The politics of enchantment discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers.

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

In 1909 the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro.

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century.

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

As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work.

The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth century is unforgettably established in this major critical work.

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

This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to today.

British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse-its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods-uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future.

This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017.

This timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels, play and short stories.