Literary Studies: From C 1900 -
New Publications
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A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction by Frederick Luis Aldama
(Hardback 192 pages)Emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely Read more...
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Flawed Light by Brett Candlish Millier
(Hardback 168 pages)The history of heavy-drinking poets in the twentieth century tilts disproportionately toward male writers. Women poets, however, were just as susceptible to alcohol. Read more...
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Beckett and Death
(Hardback 240 pages)Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories Read more...
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Community, Myth and Recognition in 20Th Century French Literature and Thought by Nikolaj Lubecker
(Hardback 192 pages)Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Read more...
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Henry James and the Father Question by Andrew Taylor
(Paperback 248 pages)Andrew Taylor explores the intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father. Read more...
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A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson & Alice Entwistle
(Paperback 403 pages)An invaluable and detailed critical analysis and record of a lively but undervalued literary community. Read more...
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Intermodernism
(Hardback 272 pages)This collection of original critical essays launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history. Read more...
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Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations by Lucia Boldrini
(Paperback 245 pages)Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques. Read more...
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Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' by Len Platt
(Paperback 224 pages)Platt places Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and explores Joyce's engagement with European fascism. Read more...
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T.S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition
(Paperback 245 pages)A reappraisal of the afterlife of Eliot's reformulation of the idea of literary tradition. Read more...
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Heart Language by Susan Colestock Hill
(Hardback 280 pages)Elsie Singmaster wrote extensively over the first half of the twentieth century. While Singmaster's work fell out of sight as the century wore on, her writings remain a Read more...
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Bulgakov's Last Decade by J.a.E. Curtis
(Paperback 264 pages)This book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. Read more...
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o by Simon Gikandi
(Paperback 344 pages)A comprehensive study of all the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist, Ngugu wa Thiong'o. Read more...
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The Crowning of a Poet's Quest by Paola Loreto
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Joyce and Wagner by Timothy Peter Martin
(Paperback 308 pages)Timothy Martin documents Joyce's exposure to Wagner's operas, and defines a pervasive Wagnerian presence in his work. Read more...
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Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde by Paul Peppis
(Paperback 248 pages)An analysis of the avant-garde that places the movement in a broader political and cultural context. Read more...
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Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science by Holly Henry
(Paperback 224 pages)Investigates how advances in astronomy in the early twentieth century had a shaping effect on Woolf's literature. Read more...
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Beautiful Enemies Friendship and Postwar American Poetry by Andrew Epstein
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Deviant Modernism by Colleen Lamos
(Paperback 280 pages)Re-evaluates Eliot, Joyce and Proust to find 'deviant' sexual energies at the heart of modernism. Read more...
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Doris Lessing
(Hardback 208 pages)Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. This essay collection reflects and explores the Read more...
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The Cosmopolitan Novel by Berthold Schoene
(Hardback 216 pages)This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community. Read more...
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Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery
(Paperback 304 pages)This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean. Read more...
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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description by Zachariah Pickard
(Hardback 220 pages)Many readers are struck by Elizabeth Bishop's use of clear, striking descriptions of the physical world, and no scholar has ever asked how Bishop's commitment to Read more...
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Jim Harrison by Gregg Orr & Beef Torrey
(Hardback 416 pages)Jim Harrison, a literary maverick, is widely considered one of the great and iconic writers in contemporary American literature. This work contains more than sixteen Read more...
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D. H. Lawrence's Non-Fiction by David Ellis & Howard Mills
(Paperback 200 pages)This is the first book devoted entirely to Lawrence's nonfictional writings. Read more...
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British Poetry in the Age of Modernism by Peter Howarth
(Paperback 236 pages)An informative and inspiring account of the themes and debates that have shaped British poetry of the last century. Read more...
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The Ethics of Modernism by Lee Oser
(Paperback 196 pages)The Ethics of Modernism brings a fresh perspective on modernist literature and its interaction with ethical strands of philosophy. Read more...
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Word and Music in the Novels of Andrey Bely by Ada Steinberg
(Paperback 328 pages)Dr Steinberg discusses Andrey Bely's novels by analysing Wagner's musical techniques and literary devices that Bely employs. Read more...
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The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens by Rajeev S. Patke
(Paperback 280 pages)This study presents a close reading of Stevens' seven longest poems including 'The Auroras of Autumn' and 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven'. Read more...
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Modernism, Ireland and Civil War by Nicholas Allen
(Hardback 240 pages)An important study of post-1922 Irish literature in its engagement with political and literary experiment. Read more...
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Free Will and Determinism in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels by Ludwig Schnauder
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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel by Renee Dickinson
(Hardback 226 pages)A study that considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period - Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore. It examines four Read more...
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Langston Hughes
(Paperback 788 pages)The first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Langston Hughes from 1926 until his death in 1967. Read more...
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Mikhail Zoshchenko by Linda Hart Scatton
(Paperback 316 pages)This book explores Mikhail Zoshchenko's critical and political reception in the Soviet Union. Read more...
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The Poetic Imagination of Vyacheslav Ivanov by Pamela Davidson
(Paperback 336 pages)Pamela Davidson explores Ivanov's poetic method, relating his art to his central beliefs. Read more...
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Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture by John Brannigan
(Hardback 256 pages)This book sets out to expose through a combination of literary, cultural and historical analysis the fictive nature of Irish monoculturalism and to probe figurations of Read more...
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Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography by Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara
(Hardback 240 pages)Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Read more...
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George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community by Dr. Timothy C Baker
(Hardback 192 pages)In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question Read more...
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Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing by Stephen Watt
(Hardback 234 pages)Examines Samuel Beckett's importance to Irish literature through a discussion of his influence on contemporary novelists, poets and dramatists. Read more...







