Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves,...  Read More >>

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This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels....  Read More >>

A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers...  Read More >>

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.), Humboldt-Universitèat zu Berlin, 2020.  Read More >>

The first study bringing together Polish, American and German literary and cultural traditions  Read More >>

In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, ""Peyton Place,""...  Read More >>

Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets’ archival materials and...  Read More >>

A first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, an international architect...  Read More >>

This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years...  Read More >>

American writers turned to the georgic mode—an ancient literary tradition focused on the human relationship with...  Read More >>

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Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis...  Read More >>

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As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the Primitive Sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern...  Read More >>

""The novel Mazaltob (1930) by Blanche Bendahan is the forerunner of a modern Sephardi feminist literature in French,...  Read More >>

It explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through...  Read More >>

"Kaleemuddin Ahmad's book ""Criticism and Literary criticism"" forces the readers to think a lot about their attitudes...  Read More >>

This book considers the work of the bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht through the lenses of...  Read More >>

This work establishes a poetic art of Giono based on his own speech about creation: novels, essays, diaries, letters...  Read More >>

This work establishes a poetic art of Giono based on his own speech about creation: novels, essays, diaries, letters...  Read More >>

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Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara...  Read More >>