Literary Studies: from c 1900

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled “Toward a ‘World Literature’ in French,” signed by forty-four writers, many from...

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is...

Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in li...

"I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From The Interpretation of D...

Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging...

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in lit...

A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America’s most distinc...

This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, commun...

Author Under Sail offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer. Jay Williams examines the authorial imagina...

Since N. Scott Momaday’s 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn brought Native American fiction squarely into mainstream culture, the genre has...

"I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From The Interpretation of D...

The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive ...

More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with "deconstr...

In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and f...

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative...

When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the...

Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his gen...

In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What,...

"How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and int...

Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor t...

"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursu...

The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned abou...