Literary Studies: from c 1900

A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon's favorite son and contemporary America's favorite humorist.

Edward Albee has reigned over the American theater since 1959. By transporting the techniques of European absurdism to American soil, he ushered in...

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a part...

The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in whic...

Here is the inimitable Henry Miller (1891-1980) speaking candidly about himself and his robust fiction--Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The ...

Charles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart ...

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint ...

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's mos...

In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. ...

Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to exca...

     "Plant's study is sorely         needed at this point in the evolving critical assessment of Hurston. It         is a paradigm for the study o...

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature...

The first full-length book devoted to Japan's 1994 Nobel Laureate, The Marginal World of Kenzaburo Ôe introduces the literary universe bursting wit...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in ...

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques f...

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, ide...

Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's...

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text anal...

Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary...

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...