Literary Studies: from c 1900

This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kiplings fiction. It shows how K...

Celan gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts und sein Einfluss auf Literatur, Kunst und Musik ist unumstri...

Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globaliz...

Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edg...

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

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

English Literature and Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950) looks at the British pioneers of a new style of writing in the twentieth century. Hand...

Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scho...

Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his th...

Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his...

This is a distinctive book that examines the diversity and energy of writing in a period marked by the unparalleled global prominence of Irish cult...

Die Chronik von Leben und Werk des Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane schließt nach der 2006 erschienenen Bibliographie die zweite seit langem beklagt...

From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature a...

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book ...

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin Americas foremost literary critic and dialectician, undersco...

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Richs later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked p...

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutzs conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic...

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which...

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, begi...