Literary Studies: from c 1900

At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces, routines, economies, societies, and work-lives, ...

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and visi...

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that con...

This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kiplings fiction. It shows how K...

Celan gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts und sein Einfluss auf Literatur, Kunst und Musik ist unumstri...

Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globaliz...

Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edg...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. ...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. ...

English Literature and Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950) looks at the British pioneers of a new style of writing in the twentieth century. Hand...

Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scho...

Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his th...

Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his...

This is a distinctive book that examines the diversity and energy of writing in a period marked by the unparalleled global prominence of Irish cult...

Die Chronik von Leben und Werk des Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane schließt nach der 2006 erschienenen Bibliographie die zweite seit langem beklagt...

From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature a...

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book ...

First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin Americas foremost literary critic and dialectician, undersco...

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Richs later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked p...

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutzs conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic...

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which...

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, begi...

This monograph identifies and investigates the other-conscious ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in t...

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält erstmals die Rubrik Kleist-Funde, in der fünf bislang unbekannte Briefe Heinrich von Kleists an Joseph von Buol-Be...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the archival revolution due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. ...

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the archival revolution due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. ...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Petrofiction als eine neue Strömung der Gegenwartsliteratur herausgebildet. Diese hat in der ökologisch orientie...

How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots? This book looks at ways of reading, and un...

Winner of the ASTR Translation Prize 2023. Winner of CAMWS' 2024 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award.This book brings to English readers, in its entirety for t...

This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their...

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waughs post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offe...

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeatss work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how readin...

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, ...

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timel...

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understan...

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After Brecht