Literary Studies: from c 1900

Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in the Unit...

Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in ...

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nont...

This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It ...

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by readin...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...

Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allg...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips in...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...