Literary Studies: from c 1900

Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to empha...

Since its origin, American literature has always had an uneasy relationship with science: born at a time when science was becoming a profession, it...

Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between the death of the author (Barthes) and the return of the author (Couturier), this work sugg...

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-...

The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a man...

Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th cen...

From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a wr...

Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write c...

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often un...

Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specific...