Literary Studies: from c 1900

On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling b...

This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew t...

This volume provides new historical and literary insights into the Harlem Renaissance, returning attention to it not only as a broad expression of ...

When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized ...

This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbea...

The correspondence between the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and his politically active graduate student Elisabeth Lenk offers fresh insights into ...

Vietnam and Beyond: Tim OBrien and the Power of Storytelling is a comprehensive, in-depth study of one of the most thought-provoking writers of the...

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter...

To the world they are known as Berbers, but they prefer to call themselves Imazighen, or free people. The claim to this unique cultural identity ha...

This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing t...

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S. o...

Highlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relations

In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to ...

John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-...

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. ONeill...

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israels Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli cu...

Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be d...

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berrymans birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays...

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanis...

Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

This book draws on two philosophical conceptions, referred to with the terms identity and difference in A la recherche du temps perdu, which is ass...

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philos...