Literary Studies: from c 1900

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...