Literary Studies: from c 1900

Thomas Manns novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosop...

This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of womens nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and expl...

Analysing David Peace provides an exciting, challenging and accessible critical introduction to the work of contemporary British novelist David Pea...

This book focuses on the analysis of various passages across enclosures and the spacetime continuum in science fiction literature. It provides a ri...

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity aims to advance the field of studies on the life and work of Henry James by fully exploring the authors us...

The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster is a collection of essays on Austers recent novels and films. Following the e...

This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrads novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal ...

This book locates spatial dimensions possible for a global identity, while incorporating the presence of collaborative and contentious religious, p...

Kathryn Stocketts 2009 best-selling novel The Help and its subsequent 2011 film center on the experiences of African-American domestic workers livi...

A farmers daughter, a convent girl, a lover of the Irish countryside, a poet, novelist and short story writer, a journalist, a friend of the Englis...

This collection commemorates the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism. The second decade of the twentieth century...

Mapping out the Rushdie Republic differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of...

An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the b...

Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie ...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian ...

Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies In the twe...

The volume encompasses eleven articles which discuss the critical views that Polish and Russian women writers have articulated with regard to the n...

The contributions in this book draw attention to the close, though sometimes ambiguous, relationship between biography, aesthetics, ideology, socia...

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

The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroadprincipally in the U...

While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor ...

Nabokovs distinguished and unique position in American literature has always been indisputable, but paradoxical. There has always been an element o...

Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both...

Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance is the first serious and sustained study in English of one of the most important Hungarian writers of ...

Evil remains a primary source of inquiry in contemporary literature of French expression, even among its most secular writers. In considering Frenc...

Recent scholarship on Tolkien has been especially attentive not only to the importance of religion in his personal life, but also to the wider theo...

Dr Cecilia Acquarones perceptive analysis of liminality in British postcolonial fiction from a gender perspective constitutes an innovative, though...

James Joyce and After: Writer and Time is a volume of essays examining various aspects of time in literature, starting with the modernist revolutio...

Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through wr...

This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels.The book opens wi...

Hailed as the American Chekhov by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer sin...

This engaging and often controversial study of Becketts works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence ...

Author of the masterpieces Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, the nom de plume of Eric Arthur Blair, experienced, explored and ex...

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity ...

In this study of the influence of Indian metaphysics on Lawrence Durrells novels, Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Dur...

This volume provides a detailed description of the literary contact between Graham Greene and Francos Spain. Part I describes the most significant ...

Heimat has been a crucial concept for the construction of identity in the German-speaking world. Seemingly impossible to translate, Heimat has serv...

Travel has often been taken as a metaphor for human life, and the concept of travel and the traveller has varied across centuries, cultural traditi...

Postcolonial Odysseys: Derek Walcotts Voyages of Homecoming highlights the importance of the trope of voyaging in Derek Walcotts poetics, primarily...

This book investigates Anna Bantis contribution to the creation of a female literary canon, as well as the renewal of Italian literature, from styl...

The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration ...