Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of...

This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. The book will be of interest...

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century - a proper study of Huxley's characterization in his novels opens up a veritable treasure-house of history, philosophy, psychology, and...

Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes of his life's work, relates that work to his own life history, and explains his...

Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals...

This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should 'listen' to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and...

This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue. Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women's golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, Karlsruhe University of Education, language: English, abstract: Television, social platforms and advertisements are full of them:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,8, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Erinnern und Geschlecht, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit geht es um die...

In this first volume, the reader will find a collection of articles written by scholars who have read, studied, and analyzed the work of Graham Greene. This volume includes the following articles:“Reflections” byJudith Adamson“Shades of...

"So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These...

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, bodily and material agency. Breaking away from scholarly preoccupations with...

This substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative...

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-siècle cure for middle-class neuroses. The...

Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from Hélène Cixous to Colm Tóibín, have acknowledged the transformative influence of her writing on their...

This book embarks on a captivating journey through the turbulent life and revolutionary poetry of Allen Ginsberg, a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature. More than just a literary analysis, it delves into the complexities of Ginsberg's...

Dieses Buch greift Probleme auf, die Rußlands spezifischen Weg in die Zivilisation charakterisieren: die Haltung Rußlands gegenüber dem Westen; die Konfrontation archaischer und zivilisationsbildender Elemente; der nationale Mentalitätstyp; Rußlands...

Thorsten Stegemann beschäftigt sich in dieser Studie mit literarischen Werken, die weder im Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses noch im Zentrum fachspezifischer Diskussionen stehen. Die Bühnendichtungen Rainer Maria Rilkes, das Gesamtwerk Hermann...

What is postmodern-postmodernism as philosophy-and what should we think of it? The first eight chapters of Julian Young's new book examine the thought of key postmodernist philosophers: Lyotard, Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Vattimo, Richard...

The Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past styles, and a rise of new forms of expression. In...

For several generations, comics were regarded as a boy's club--created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and...

An international reassessment of the great writer's workContributions by Robert Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John W. Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John ZhengCritics in this...

In politischen und medialen Debatten werden unter dem häufig stigmatisierend gebrauchten Schlagwort ‚Parallelgesellschaft' Fragen sozialer Homogenität und Heterogenität kontrovers diskutiert. Diesem reduktionistischen Gestus setzt der Band das offene...

This book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler's seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for W Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, agreed to be Maugham's most noted and most important work. As a bildungsroman of the early 20th century, Of Human Bondage is...

Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it's typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own...

This book "Adab Paarey" is a useful and informative book that helps the reader understand the literary history, society, and mentality of a certain age. These thoughtful and evocative essays were chosen from the National Council for the Promotion of Urdu...

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of...

The short stories of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, have remained in print continuously for over a hundred years. This collection is the first of its kind to present his stories as they were originally published in newspapers and...

Even as We Speak is an illuminating and hilarious collection of essays by one of Britain's most beloved authors.

Clive James's second book of criticism, with an introduction by the author.

'The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist' - Alfred Polgar

Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel...

Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being," what he actually meant by the term "human being" has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace was a...

Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author...

Examination Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Essen), language: English, abstract: This thesis deals with the generational shift and the question of...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 11,00, , Veranstaltung: Deutsch Leistungskurs, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Mensch sieht sich Zeit seines Lebens Krisen gegenüber. Die...

The Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past styles, and a rise of new forms of expression.In her...

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's...

Critic of the Year, British Press Awards 1981

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,3, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Philosophische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Text, Bild, Schnitt: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (für deutsche Literatur), Veranstaltung: Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit...