Literary Studies: from c 1900

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity an...

This book, written in Spanish, focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Benjamin Jarnes, ...

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visua...

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great tal...

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a char...

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on t...

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. Reference...

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever ...

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the...

Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is o...

Flannery O’Connor may now be acknowledged as the “Great American Catholic Author,” but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O’Conno...

This is a selection of interviews with William Styron published during the period 1951-1984, from the months just following publication of Lie Down...

With increasing candor and openness May Sarton's conversations have given an intimate view of her honest, courageous inner life. Best known to her ...

The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various f...

This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael Sanchez's work in the context of cultural...

Bernard Malamud gave his first interview in 1958, his last in 1986. During the intervening twenty-eight years he was formally interviewed at least ...

How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such is...

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creati...

The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nau...

This book re-thinks the literary and social worlds of Mahasweta Devi, the prolific and influential writer and social activist, in connection to her...

At the turn of the twentieth century, realism meant drunken laborers participating in sordid sex and violent acts. As the century progressed, howev...

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the “Engl...

No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the comple...