Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s...  Read More >>

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility,...  Read More >>

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This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare, interrogating the intricate...  Read More >>

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the impacts...  Read More >>

The progressive movement was an important movement in Urdu literature. This book presents a critical overview of...  Read More >>

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound...  Read More >>

The first task of literary criticism is to see what is the significance of the analysis or emotion or idea presented...  Read More >>

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites...  Read More >>

Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a...  Read More >>

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Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Addressing the history,...  Read More >>

A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a prophet of the future; a pioneer of psychedelic experimentation:...  Read More >>

A Literary Exploration of Chicana Coming of Age, Identity, and Belonging  Read More >>

Reveals a New Story of Unexpected Sympathies, Solidarities, and Care in the Guant namo Borderlands  Read More >>

Provides an overdue thematic analysis by systematically tracing a dialogue of influence between Faulkner’s literary...  Read More >>

This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies...  Read More >>

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion discovers the considerable impact...  Read More >>

This book analyzes Jewish themes, characters, and contributions in science fiction and fantasy of the post-Holocaust...  Read More >>