Literary Studies: from c 1900

A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercis...

Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned...

Presents research conducted in three difficult-to-access Cuban archives with rare textual resources, upon which very little analysis has ever previ...

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissa...

American Literature in Transition, 19701980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, f...

The notion of the individual was initially translated into Korean near the end of the nineteenth century and took root during the early years of Ja...

The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and enga...

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic c...

This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is brea...

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

An affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature focussing on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. This book pr...

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipita...

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fans love, a fict...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creati...

In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (18621952), Molly Hite ...

Russian Nobel prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most importa...

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literatureLeopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloomas well as...

This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D....

Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh ...