Literary Studies: from c 1900

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity an...

Global Arab Fiction explores twenty-first-century fiction set in north and east Africa, the Gulf, the Arab east, and diaspora, showing diversity an...

The book brings to the English-speaking public outstanding texts of prominent Latin American and Caribbean women thinkers translated for the first...

Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the st...

Edward Gorey (19252000) was a fascinating and prolific author and artist. Of the one hundred delightful and fascinating books that Gorey wrote and ...

From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and c...

Band 2 des Kempowski-Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Roman Schöne Aussicht (1981). Geschildert wird die deutsche Zwischenkriegszeit. Aus Sicht der Famil...

Gender diversity and the fact that gender is subject to perpetual renegotiations have become part of teachers and students lives. This volume tackl...

The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the little postage stamp of soil that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years du...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

Since the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become known as the principal voice of American countercult...

Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed c...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. Th...

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction persona, James Ellroy ha...

Conversations with Michael Crichton brings together decades of interviews and profiles with one of the world's most successful authors. Michael Cri...

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? L...

Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Hum...

United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, ...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...

A collection of political talesfirst published in British workers magazinesselected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn t...

The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic theories to interpret...

In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934-1999) Mississippi's favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews...

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India.This volume cont...

Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas th...

Winner of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North Americas Biennial Award for a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies  Though the differences in s...

British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in B...

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of the twin fields of medieva...

Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie Zaubersprüche und Erlkönigs Tochter...

This book explores the interplay between literature and law, showing how writers from Victor Hugo to Annie Ernaux have influenced and reflected cha...

Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still perti...

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing...

This volume examines Ibero-American as well as Slavic literatures of the 21st century and studies how historical imaginaries in family narratives a...

This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential wri...

Die Studie untersucht erstmals systematisch Erich Kästners bislang nur marginal erforschte Rolle als Intellektueller nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. A...

Since Sylvia Plaths death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a gr...

Metafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically ...

The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. C...

Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America's most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's birth, Pearl Ameli...

British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in B...

The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Y...

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal...

Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is ...

This volume considers Samuel Becketts fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Kei...

In the swirling landscape of contemporary literature, Arundhati Roy stands as the monsoon rains, equally loved and disparaged. This book delves int...

Das Buch präsentiert eine mathematische Leseart des literarischen Raums, die als Werkzeug benutzt wird, um die Verflechtungen von Raum, Zeit, Thema...

The Russian intelligentsia is the historic phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publ...

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-br...