Literary Studies: from c 1900

This title features newly commissioned, innovative essays on Samuel Beckett and the arts in the broadest sense. This Companion captures the continu...

This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon ...

This title explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century. The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz L...

This is a new reading of this intensely private 20th century American poet's work. Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her earl...

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturat...

Florence L. Yudin explores the theme of silence in Jorge Guillen''s Aire nuestro.

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a ...

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays hi...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through h...

Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. She is one of...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Wat...

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars...

The Making of the Modern Artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen examines two fictional artists by James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in A Portrait o...

Carlos Fuentes (19282012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin Am...

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values i...

Attitudes towards, and strategies for treating, those who suffer from abnormal mental states have evolved considerably over the centuries, and thes...

Ruth Pitter (18971992) may not be widely known, but her credentials as a poet are extensive; in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she mai...

New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the New Biographers, who more than half...

Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories r...

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South Afr...