Literary Studies: from c 1900

Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American p...

Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Secon...

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense ...

A collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations about Jakob", a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries: From the Life...

American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classica...

Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzl...

Winner of the de la Torre Bueno prize, Society of Dance History Scholars The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a...

Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Irelan...

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard...

Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s ...

When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in aca...

The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first ...

Assembling works in a variety of genres, Gayle Rogers reconstructs an archive of cross-cultural exchanges to reveal the mutual constitution of two ...

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature--Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom--as wel...

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense ...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published n...

Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism. It reclaims a central bod...

These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The w...

How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sym...

"Fire the Bastards! "is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel "The Recognitions "...

Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial c...

Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classic...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. ...