Literary Studies: from c 1900

Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of H...

These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots...

There is no world of thought that is not a world of language, Walter Benjamin remarked, and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by la...

Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a perception that their wo...

Stunning black and white photographs of Chapelizod and the Phoenix Park, with essays by leading Dublin Joyceans. This is a homage to James Joyce, w...

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico García Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and de...

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual. Queer crime fic...

The Road, already a popular coursework text at A Level, is one of the new texts selected for AQA B's AS unit on Aspects of Narrative, for first exa...

Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism...

Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fict...

In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about r...

The legacy of the relationship between African American writers and Communism in the US is a contested one. In Bitter with the Past but Sweet with ...

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural ha...

Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air. NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers ...

G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid wri...

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pre...

Hailed as 'the father of black literature in the twentieth century', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose m...

Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narniaperhaps even no conversion to Christianity by C.S. Lew...

A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of ca...

Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic ...