Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

This critical introduction to Warner's writings aims to rehabilitate them from neglect by discussing the development of his ideas and their problematic relationship with the fictional forms through which he articulated them--a relationship which deepens...

This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples.

Foreword Our First Meeting Language Like Lightning from a Clear Sky Tolkien's Double Worlds Middle-earth From Bloemfontein to Birmingham From Sarehole to Shire An Orphan Drawn to Reading Student Life in Oxford Soldier at the Front Experience of War in...

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories and argues that it is precisely in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. The dialogism of Conrad's East resists any finalising...

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton's full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an...

Modernism and Christianity is about the formative and continuing impact of Christianity upon the cultural movement known as Modernism. It defends the view that any theoretical, historical, or critical discussion of Modernism that neglects or minimises...

List of Abbreviations Introduction Woolf's Definition of the Short Story Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation Woolf's Ethics of Reading and Writing Woolf's Short...

Contents Introduction Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity Shaky Ground, New Territoralities and the Diasporic...

When a writer produces a novel that is both denounced as Communist propaganda and extolled as the ideal travelling companion for hearty venture capitalists looking to conquer the untapped markets of Southeast Asia, one would expect to see a troupe of...

The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and...

Introduction War, Trauma, Postmodernism Gravity's Rainbow and Traumatic Models of History 'A Secret Code of Pain and Memory': Traumatic Repetition in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard Total War and the English Stream-of-Consciousness Novel: From Mrs Dalloway...

Introduction: The Novel of History 1969-2005 Tradition and Renewal The Romance of the Past Empire and the Politics of Representation Political Engagement and the Romance of Withdrawal Conclusion: Fictions of the Garden Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironies of Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the...

This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity,...

Acknowledgements Author Biographies Writing Madness, Analysing Madness Mental States Power and Institutions in Fiction Diversity, Ethnicity, Madness and Fiction Creativity, Madness and Fiction Postmodern Madness Literature and Clinical Education...

This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Arguments are primarily based on close readings of the first four Harry Potter books and the first two films - in other words, a...

Although praised by reviewers, Robert Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. This collection fills that gap and addresses such topics as the evolution of Ground Work, the relation of Duncan's later poetry...

Shattering terrain and lives, the First World War challenged the representative power of words, maps, and visual art. This book tells the untold story of literary responses, showing how modernist fictional topographies by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West,...

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Kimberly S. Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel. These works transformed literary conventions concerning art...

This exciting collection brings together work from several disciplines that addresses the politics of queer representation in global contexts. Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic,...

James Joyce and the Revolt of Love is a study of marriage, adultery, and desire. Beginning with contextual and biographical background and using a vocabulary drawn from postmodern ethics and the philosophy of love, this book examines the representation...

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.Whereas earlier assessments have focused on Lessing's relationship with feminism and the impact of her...