Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Cambridge University Press Contemporary American Playwrights
Book SynopsisA leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.Trade Review"Bigsby's study helps fill the void in criticism of contemporary American drama and will be useful as introductions to the playwrights for high school students and college undergraduates." Libraries UnlimitedTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. John Guare; 2. Tina Howe; 3. Tony Kushner; 4. Emily Mann; 5. Richard Nelson; 6. Marsha Norman; 7. David Rabe; 8. Paula Vogel; 9. Wendy Wasserstein; 10. Lanford Wilson; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Nationalism and the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Effects
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Cambridge University Press Simone de Beauvoir Gender and Testimony
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Cambridge University Press Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination 56 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press Food Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Womens Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Rilke Modernism and Poetic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Russian Literature Modernism and the Visual Arts
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Cambridge University Press ONeill
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Cambridge University Press Literature Politics and the English AvantGarde
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Cambridge University Press Freuds Literary Culture
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Cambridge University Press ONeill
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Cambridge University Press Semicolonial Joyce
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel
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Cambridge University Press Contemporary American Playwrights By Christopher Bigsby published August 2010
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Proust
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, its intellectual parameters and its humour.Trade Review'We are provided with a series of closely analysed descriptions, full of allusive and alliterative phrases with a music of their own.' Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Richard Bales; 1. From Belle Epoque to First World War: the social panorama Cynthia Gamble; 2. The vast structure of recollection: from life to literature William C. Carter; 3. Ruskin and the cathedral of lost souls Diane R. Leonard; 4. The birth and development of A la recherche du temps perdu Marion Schmid; 5. Lost and found: the structure of Proust's novel Roger Shattuck; 6. Proust's Narrator Brian Rogers; 7. The unconscious Jack Jordan; 8. The texture of Proust's novel Joshua Landy; 9. Proust's human comedy Hollie Markland Harder; 10. Proust and social spaces Edward J. Hughes; 11. Love, sexuality and friendship Alison Finch; 12. Proust and the fine arts Richard Bales; 13. Proust and posterity David Ellison; Proust and the art of brevity Malcolm Bowie.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
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Cambridge University Press thecambridgeintroductiontomodernbritishfiction1950
Book SynopsisIn this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head's study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.Trade Review'This should become a standard reference work for its subject.' ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The state and the novel: The post-war wilderness; The testing of liberal humanism; The sixties and social revolution; The post-consensus novel; Intimations of social collapse; After Thatcher; 2. Class and social change: 'The movement'; Anger and working-class fiction; Education and class loyalty; The formal challenge of class; The waning of class consciousness; The rise of the middle class; The rise of the underclass; The realignment of the middle class; The role of the intellectual; 3. Gender and sexual identity: Out of the bird-cage; Second-wave feminism; Post-feminism; Repression in gay fiction; 4. National identity: Reinventing Englishness; The colonial legacy; The Troubles; Irishness extended; Welsh resistance; The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness; Beyond the Isles?; 5. Multicultural personae: Jewish-British writing; The empire within; 'Windrush' and after: dislocation confronted; The quest for a settlement; Ethnic identity and literary form; Putting down roots; Rushdie's broken mirror; Towards post-nationalism; 6. Country and suburbia: The death of the nature novel; The re-evaluation of pastoral; The post-pastoral novel; The country and the city; Trouble in suburbia; Embracing the suburban experience; 7. Beyond 2000: Realism and experimentalism; Technology and the new science; Towards the new confessional; The fallacy of the new; A broken truth: Murdoch and morality; Notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Brecht By Peter Thomson published January 2007
Book SynopsisThis updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more voices and themes. The opening essays place Brecht's creative work in its historical and biographical context and are followed by chapters on single texts, from The Threepenny Opera to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, on some early plays and on the LehrstÃcke. Other essays analyse Brecht's directing, his poetry, his interest in music and his work with actors. This revised edition also contains additional essays on his early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this provocative overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke.Table of ContentsA Brecht calendar Glendyr Sacks; Preface; Part I. Context and Life: 1. Brecht's Germany: 1898-1933 Eve Rosenhaft; 2. Brecht's Lives Peter Thomson; 3. Brecht and cabaret Oliver Double and Michael Wilson; Part II. The Plays: 4. Brecht's early plays Tony Meech; 5. The Threepenny Opera Stephen McNeff; 6. Brecht's clowns: Man is Man and after Joel Schechter; 7. Learning for a new society: the Lehrstück Roswitha Mueller; 8. The Good Person of Szechwan Christopher McCullough; 9. Mother Courage and Her Children Robert Leach; 10. Life of Galileo: between contemplation and the command to participate Catherine Turner; 11. The Caucasian Chalk Circle: the view from Europe Maria Shevtsova; Part III. Theories and Practices: 12. Brecht and the Berliner ensemble - the making of a model Carl Weber; 13. Revolutionising theatre: Brecht's reinvention of the dramaturgy Mary Luckhurst; 14. Key words in Brecht's theory and practice of theatre Peter Brooker; 15. Brecht's poetry Philip Thomson; 16. Brecht and music: theory and practice Kim H. Kowalke; 17. Brecht and stage design: the Bühnenbuildner and the Bühnenbauer Christopher Baugh; 18. Actors on Brecht Margaret Eddershaw; 19. Brecht and film Martin Brady; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Henry Handel Richardson A Life
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisPostmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the 'pioneers', Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commoTrade Review'Nicol's continuously readable Introduction is a valuable work of reference and one which many students will find helpful.' Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsPreface: reading postmodern fiction; 1. Postmodern fiction: theory and practice; 2. Early postmodern fiction: Beckett, Borges, and Burroughs; 3. 1960s and 1970s US metafiction: Coover, Barth, Nabokov, Vonnegut, Pynchon; 4. The postmodern historical novel: Fowles, Barnes, Swift; 5. Postmodern-postcolonial fiction; 6. Postmodern fiction by women: Carter, Atwood, Acker; 7. Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and 'metaphysical' detective fiction; 8. Fiction of the 'postmodern condition': Ballard, DeLillo, Ellis; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to J M Coetzee Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to TwentiethCentury English Poetry Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 18301914
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the TwentiethCentury English Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
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Cambridge University Press TwentiethCentury French Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garci Mrquez
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Cambridge University Press The American 1930s A Literary History
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust
Book SynopsisProust''s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 191327) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust''s life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust''s finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust''s verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work''s afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust''s novel for themselves.Trade Review'Watt creates a successful guidebook for new and hesitant readers of the Recherche … [He] shares with his reader what, in the end, is the true secret of Proust's novel: for its great length and difficulty, the Recherche holds the promise of being an inexhaustible source of pleasure.' H-France Review'Watt manages to make a difference with his fresh overview of Proust reception beyond literary scholarship and his focus on highlighting the richness of the Search beyond the well-known stereotypes of madeleine and memory. One of his most commendable achievements in this respect is the attention to the text's linguistic quality.' Modern & Contemporary FranceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Early works and late essays; 4. In Search of Lost Time; 5. Proust criticism; Epilogue: Proustian afterlives; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisWomen played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890â1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.Trade Review'One of the main strengths of this Companion is the exploration of writers from Canada, Africa and the Caribbean … a thorough exploration of a rich net of historical, cultural and common connections.' Women: A Cultural ReviewTable of ContentsModernist women's literature: an introduction Maren Linett; 1. Transforming the novel Bonnie Kime Scott; 2. The problem of form in modernist women's poetry Miranda Hickman; 3. Women's modernism and performance Penny Farfan; 4. Magazines, presses, and salons in women's modernism Jayne Marek; 5. Gender in women's modernism Patricia Juliana Smith; 6. Black women's modernist literature Thadious Davis; 7. Race and ethnicity in white women's modernist literature Jean Radford; 8. Geomodernism, postcoloniality, and women's writing Laura Doyle; 9. Women modernists and visual culture Maggie Humm; 10. Modernism and trauma Suzette Henke; 11. Political activism and women's modernism Sowon Park; 12. Religion and the occult in women's modernism Heather Ingman.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
Book SynopsisArthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, and his work continues to be widely performed and studied around the world. This updated Companion includes Miller's work since the publication of the first edition in 1997 - the plays Mr Peters' Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture - and key productions of his plays since his death in 2005. The chapter on Miller and the cinema has been completely revised to include new films, and demonstrates that Miller's work remains an important source for filmmakers. In addition to detailed analyses of plays including Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Miller's work is also placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay which reviews the key studies of Miller and also contains a detailed chronology of the work of this influential dramatist.Table of ContentsChronology Susan Haedicke; 1. Introduction; 2. The tradition of social drama: Miller and his forebears Brenda Murphy; 3. The early plays Christopher Bigsby; 4. All My Sons Steven R. Centola; 5. Death of a Salesman and the poetics of Arthur Miller Matthew C. Roudané; 6. Conscience and community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible Thomas P. Adler; 7. A View from the Bridge Albert Wertheim; 8. The Holocaust, the Depression and McCarthyism: Miller in the sixties Janet N. Balakian; 9. Miller's 1970s 'power' plays William W. Demastes; 10. Miller in the eighties June Schlueter; 11. The last plays Christopher Bigsby; 12. Arthur Miller and the cinema R. Barton Palmer; 13. Arthur Miller's fiction Malcolm Bradbury; 14. Critic, criticism, critics Stephen Barker; 15. Arthur Miller: a bibliographic essay Susan Haedicke.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisFranz Kafka (1883â1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more engaging, diverse, light-hearted and ironic than is commonly suggested by clichÃs of 'the Kafkaesque'. And, once explored in detail, they are less difficult and impenetrable than is often assumed. Through close analysis of their style, imagery and narrative perspective, Carolin Duttlinger aims to give readers the confidence to (re-)discover Kafka's works without constant recourse to the mantras of critical orthodoxy. In addition, she situates Kafka's texts within their wider cultural, historical and political contexts illustrating how they respond to the concerns of their age, and of our own.Trade Review'Sprightly and astute … an excellent guide that has much to offer readers new to Kafka's web as well as those already snared.' Times Literary Supplement'It is genuinely refreshing to read a book on Kafka without an agenda or all-encompassing thesis about how to interpret Kafka and what our earlier readings were missing - even if such books also have their time and place … The book will be useful to general readers, students at all levels, and literary scholars who might be familiar with some of Kafka's works and are looking to read more.' Kata Gellen, German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Scholarship and adaptations; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
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