Literary Studies: from c 1900

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volu...

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and social responsibility in works b...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations. This resolutio...

Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work ...

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this m...

Teaching Nabokovs Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to critique Nabokovs Lolita from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate an...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and ...

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British pla...

Art has a lot to answer for. So says Sarah Bernhardt in Ronald Harwoods play After the Lions. Harwoods own career can be summarized by that same qu...

The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that what appeared to be a genesis of new lite...

An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct - even uniquely opposed - reading contexts, Australi...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct - even uniquely opposed - reading contexts, Australi...

Although published as part of a series on Brazilian studies, central to this collection are not the concepts of nation or nationhood but those of t...

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly...

The 19th-century copyright revolution gave authors and translators powerful tools over the use of their works. It encouraged publishers to form net...

Vikram Seth is a critical enigma. He is recognized as one of the most important Indian Anglophone authors of his generation; his individual works h...

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining m...

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers an...

Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundr...

A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.   In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-gard...

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrelating the ...

From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. However, many of th...

A legendary editors survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Franks masterly account of the novel go...

A legendary editors survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Franks masterly account of the novel go...

Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakesp...

'A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 2...

This book challenges two of the most commonly held assumptions about Samuel Beckett. First, that he belongs exclusively to a literary tradition and...

''Fascinating and forensically scrupulous.'' John Banville, GuardianWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring hims...

''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' Observer''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' New York TimesBest known for h...

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus ...

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks...