Literary Studies: from c 1900

Originally published in 1952, this book examines the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s...

Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressi...

The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an ins...

Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife...

'This is Alan Ross's fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan)... Winter Sea, like his...

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and refe...

The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarch...

With the twentieth century came a new awareness of just how much an individual was obliged to accept on trust, and this heightened awareness of soc...

This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Rece...

The position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicativ...

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and refe...

After Pusan, first published in 1995, is the third panel (alongside Blindfold Games and Coastwise Lights, also in Faber Finds) of a triptych of mem...

Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the huge variety of...

Stephen King is no stranger to the realm of literary criticism, but his most fantastic, far-reaching work has aroused little academic scrutiny. ...

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly...

In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely ...

This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within ...

This book engages with the question of what makes Europe postcolonial and how memory, whiteness and religion figure in representations and manifest...

Michel Houellebecq posits himself as an officer of civilization, offering a map of contemporary reality and according literature a substantial role...

On the strength of novels such as Futility and The Polyglots, William Gerhardie was hailed as the most brilliant writer of the 1920s, admired by G...

Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide...

Written by Derrida scholars, philosophers, and classicists, Derrida and Antiquity analyses a dialogue with the ancient world in the work of one of ...

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard...

'There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers. But all 'lit...