Literary Studies: from c 1900

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefini...

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both o...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and exten...

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...

Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This ...

Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, the author argues that these authors often employ strategies of indire...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the be...

Originally published in 1970. Mark Twain is generally known as a childrens writer. This serious and appreciative introduction by I. M. Walker shows...

Jean Rhys' position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned public exposure an...

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How Afr...

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debate...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to t...

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchells Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchells novels with the introduction of a new critical c...

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulat...

This book proposes that Ballards novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding o...

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between...

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the n...

Jawdat R. Haydar (19052006) was a prominent Lebanese poet from Baalbek, who contributed to world literature in the English language, and was the au...

This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the p...

Why is voice so important to us? How does the concept of voice encompass such disparate practices as vocal sound, marks on a page, identity product...

Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. Thes...

Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays and essays from French to English and was Margue...

What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? Hindi Hi...

Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent...

Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent...

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postc...

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Begin...

This book traces literatures long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, material effects. It brings this tradition...

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwells literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical co...

Issue 16 of Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English continues its commitment to publishing the best new research by established and emer...

This book uses some of Doris Lessings fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically,...

Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger reshapes our understanding of a woman, whose role in key historical, political, and cultural moments of the 20th cen...

Derek Mahon (19412020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection of new critical essays offe...

This study reconsiders and reassesses the work of Allen Tate as a poet whose themes and expression place him among the most studied andcanonical Mo...

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions ...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (19272001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as rural (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the...

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 house...