Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult...

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International's influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the...

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together...

Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf's life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf's texts and introduce...

Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books...

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin's first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of...

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in...

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our...

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six,...

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention,...

Surrealism and the Gothic argues for the determinative influence of the gothic - of the gothic novel itself and of ideas strongly associated with the gothic (insanity, incarceration, the 'accursed outsider', magic, etc.) - upon both the formation and...

Using an ecomaterialist conceptual framework, addresses interconnected stories from fiction, nonfiction, works of visual art, and physical sites in Italy and elsewhere.

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet, Uri Zvi Grinberg, and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923-1937.

This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical...

A collection of twenty-four short stories centered on the ideas and emotions of characters and explore various themes, including, isolation.

Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar explorations of his native Texas landscape and the...

In the House of Blue Lights is an award-winning collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern folklore, but the blue also refers to the blue of the globe as seen from space and the blue...

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians,...

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global...

Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing.There is now renewed interest in...

Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual...

This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates

This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, German...

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Evasion Confrontation Resignation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Globalization has created a new set of opportunities and challenges for late industrialization. This book identifies the underlying factors for latecomer firms to catch up as system integrators or to upgrade as suppliers in fastglobalizing industries...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Primary Texts Prefatory Essay: B.S. Johnson and Academia; J.Coe Introduction: Re-Reading B.S. Johnson; G.White & P.Tew Chronology: Concerning Bryan Stanley Johnson; P.Tew PART ONE:...

This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book's central...

This book studies the maximalist novels of Wallace, Baker, Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. It argues that maximalist novels not...

Acknowledgements - Preface - James Fenton's 'narratives': some reflections on Postmodernism - Theatre of Trope: Craig Raine and Christopher Reid - Waiting for the end: absences in the poetry of Michael Hofmann - History to the defeated: Geoffrey Hill's...

General Editor's Preface - Preface - List of Abbreviations - A HARDY CHRONOLOGY - Principal Sources - Index

Preface The Philosophical Realism of Virginia Woolf Bertrand Russell: The Logic of a Literary Symbol Bloomsbury Letters Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge Revisited E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Literary History Towards the Literary History of A...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Hardy and the Conjurors - Desperate Remedies (1871): Making the Trojan Horse - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia - The Hand of Ethelberta (1875): The Writer's Contract - The Return of the Native...

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; L.Harte & M.Parker The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction; G.Smyth The Aesthetics of Exile; G.O'Brien Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in...

Preface - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Text - Forster's Life: A Chronology - INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Forster Observed - In Conversation - Bloomsbury - Among Friends - Encounters with Forster - On Stage - Forster at King's - Pen Portraits -...

The Economy of Salvation Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion References Selected Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction The Experimental and the Absurd in Two on a Tower Some Surrealist Elements in Hardy's Prose and Verse Chance and Indeterminacy in Hardy's Novels and Poetry Discoveries of...

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 'Failed individualism' observed in Japan: The Novels of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) The trip of Hiroshi (1873-1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) to France and England in 1928 Yukio Mishima (1925-1970): His love of...

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Notes - PART 1: STRATEGIES OF NARRATION - 'Ignorance' and Textuality - Intertextualities - Sleeping Beauties: Discourse, Gender, Genre in the 'Erotic' Texts - PART 2: TOWARDS A POETICS OF DURAS' PROSE - Elements of a...

Preface - Note on Transliteration - Abbreviations - Russia and Joyce - Joyce and Three Russian Contemporaries - Joyce in Russia - Notes - Bibliography - Index

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of the Contributors - Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; G.Pattison - The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter-cult and...