Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx...  Read More >>

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All dieseTexte haben die Bedeutung von Körpergedächtnis und Wahrnehmungsgewohnheiten, den Einfluss von Sprache und...  Read More >>

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the...  Read More >>

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This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry, and some of the most...  Read More >>

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African...  Read More >>

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, this...  Read More >>

Isobel Maddison examines Elizabeth von Arnim's writing in its historical and intellectual contexts, establishing...  Read More >>

The first book-length consideration of one of the major British left-wing writers of the twentieth century, this...  Read More >>

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way...  Read More >>

Renegotiating the cultural topography of the romantic period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural...  Read More >>

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson...  Read More >>

Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that...  Read More >>

Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh...  Read More >>

Victoria Bazin's interpretations of Marianne Moore's poetry draw extensively on archival resources to trace her...  Read More >>

Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts...  Read More >>

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction...  Read More >>

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community at the end of the colonial era, Walonen analyses representations...  Read More >>

Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction,...  Read More >>

Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the work of Carlos Fuentes, one of the most widely recognized Mexican novelists. A lucid awareness...  Read More >>

This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under...  Read More >>