Literary Studies: from c 1900

A revised and updated edition of a comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2...

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different natio...

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged forced diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key batt...

This book is one English professors assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warning...

In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCa...

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned mother tongue about another langu...

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond...

Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and ...

As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered in and around the Charlottenburg neighborhood t...

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse to...

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this m...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921...

Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narrative...

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960a book that undermined the nations ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhoodEdn...

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrat...

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, Dav...

Modernism and Its Environments surveys new developments in modernist studies inspired by ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Taking a fr...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

In 1962, The Christian Century published C. S. Lewiss answer to the question, What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philos...

Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central ...

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's...

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, S...

This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading author...

Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which t...

Scholarly responses to Henry Millers works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In...

This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literaturefrom Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquezreflects one of the worlds mos...

Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left a...

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death ...

This book argues for a new articulation of the ways in which transgression is theorised in contemporary literature by Japanese women.Exploring the ...

This book argues for a new articulation of the ways in which transgression is theorised in contemporary literature by Japanese women.Exploring the ...

Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Darks Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark...

Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the res...

The four writers of this study Norah Lange, Silvina Ocampo, Estela Canto and Silvina Bullrich are rarely considered together. Each, however, made...

This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colettes fiction portrays a woman struggling to live ...

Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in twentieth-century Scotti...

Johann Matthias Schneuber? Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld? Jesajas Rompler von Löwenhalt? Selbst Berufsgermanisten dürften Schwierigkeiten haben, m...

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Fabers lif...

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the dis...

Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätz...

Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre...

The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagin...

Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s ...