Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books

Book Synopsis Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance–infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life–Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf’s first complete rendering of what she described as the “luminous envelope” of consciousness: a dazzling display of the mind’s inside as it plays over the brilliant surface and darker depths of reality. This edition uses the text of the original British publication of Mrs. Dalloway, which includes changes Woolf made that never appeared in the first or subsequent American editions.

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Book SynopsisThis book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer's essays on Virginia Woolf.Trade ReviewBeer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf. Beer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf.Table of ContentsIntroduction to "Between the Acts"; introduction to "The Waves"; Virginia Woolf and prehistory; essay on elegy in "To the Lighthouse"; the body of the people in Virginia Woolf; the island and the aeroplane - the case of Virginia Woolf; essay on "Between the Acts", the diaries, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen; essay on Woolf and the work of Arthur Eddington.

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Book SynopsisCritical introductions to fifteen contemporary novelists whose work is of international calibre.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Campbell Hay has been hailed as an important voice in Scottish literature and as a crucial figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century.Trade ReviewGeorge Campbell Hay's head was cracking open with literary and linguistic talent ... Wherever George went - Tarbert, Algeria, Tunisia, Bennett's Bar - he talked to ordinary folk, remembered what they said and felt, and made poetry of it ... A life that was blighted and made miserable by madness has produced a thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life ... These two volumes turn tragedy into triumph. Congratulations to Michel Byrne, the Lorimer Trust and EUP. -- Ronald Black This sumptuous and long-awaited publication is of the highest literary importance, and will surely secure the reputation of George Campbell Hay (1915-84) as a poet of international stature. It is also a pleasure to see the magnificence of his poetry brought to full light in a correspondingly magnificent work of scholarship ! [Dr Byrne] has scrupulously and sensitively fulfilled the task ! The two volumes of the Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay are beautifully laid out and produced. Dr Byrne, the Lorimer Trust, and the members of the Celtic Department at Edinburgh University who assisted in its publication are all to be congratulated. -- William Mahon Magisterial, linguistically diverse and scholarly volumes ! Dr Byrne along with Edinburgh University is to be congratulated for producing them in the attractive format now available to us. -- Neil R MacCallum An irrepressible, inventive musicality ... his war poetry ... has a striking vision which overrides the partisan. The editor ... seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. -- Meg Bateman Hay must rank as THE Scottish poet of the sea ... still a vital voice, whose clarion call for humanity is needed now, as much as ever! An immense achievement ... long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively ... a model of scholarship lightly worn ... the hardback edition is beautifully produced and sumptuous, a privilege to own. -- Thomas Owen Clancy George Campbell Hay's head was cracking open with literary and linguistic talent ... Wherever George went - Tarbert, Algeria, Tunisia, Bennett's Bar - he talked to ordinary folk, remembered what they said and felt, and made poetry of it ... A life that was blighted and made miserable by madness has produced a thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life ... These two volumes turn tragedy into triumph. Congratulations to Michel Byrne, the Lorimer Trust and EUP. This sumptuous and long-awaited publication is of the highest literary importance, and will surely secure the reputation of George Campbell Hay (1915-84) as a poet of international stature. It is also a pleasure to see the magnificence of his poetry brought to full light in a correspondingly magnificent work of scholarship ! [Dr Byrne] has scrupulously and sensitively fulfilled the task ! The two volumes of the Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay are beautifully laid out and produced. Dr Byrne, the Lorimer Trust, and the members of the Celtic Department at Edinburgh University who assisted in its publication are all to be congratulated. Magisterial, linguistically diverse and scholarly volumes ! Dr Byrne along with Edinburgh University is to be congratulated for producing them in the attractive format now available to us. An irrepressible, inventive musicality ... his war poetry ... has a striking vision which overrides the partisan. The editor ... seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. Hay must rank as THE Scottish poet of the sea ... still a vital voice, whose clarion call for humanity is needed now, as much as ever! An immense achievement ... long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively ... a model of scholarship lightly worn ... the hardback edition is beautifully produced and sumptuous, a privilege to own.

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Book SynopsisUnlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years.

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Book SynopsisThe History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film.Trade ReviewThe beautifully reproduced illustrations in The History of Gothic Fiction are integral to the book since Ellis discusses them at length ... [This fine book] reveal[s] a critically sophisticated and historically informed interest in Gothic fiction that shows every sign of continuing in current and future literary study. A study that both historicizes the gothic novel and offers a series of readings demonstrating how the gothic novel often employs historical events within its narrative structure. What at first seems a tracing of the genre's development is actually an insightful and well-researched explanation of the gothic novel's rise, meaning, evolution, historical use, and contemporary reception. The first two sectins of the book are an engaging and intriguing start to a fascinating analysis that sheds new light on a genre considered overworked and exhausted. Ellis effectively describes the differences between the gothic genre and other literary forms and convincingly demonstrates that there is more to the genre than previously thought ... His thorough explanation of Lewis' controversial and revolutionary novel [The Monk] is a wonderful magnifying glass through which to view this politically turbulent period ... In short, Ellis argues cogently for the inclusion of 'gothic' works within serious literary study ... Ellis' work lends credibility to a genre that gained critical notice in the nineteenth century but that has now been dismissed and marginalized. The History of Gothic Fiction is an important contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies and the ongoing critical work that seeks to redefine and diversify the literary canon. The beautifully reproduced illustrations in The History of Gothic Fiction are integral to the book since Ellis discusses them at length ... [This fine book] reveal[s] a critically sophisticated and historically informed interest in Gothic fiction that shows every sign of continuing in current and future literary study. A study that both historicizes the gothic novel and offers a series of readings demonstrating how the gothic novel often employs historical events within its narrative structure. What at first seems a tracing of the genre's development is actually an insightful and well-researched explanation of the gothic novel's rise, meaning, evolution, historical use, and contemporary reception. The first two sectins of the book are an engaging and intriguing start to a fascinating analysis that sheds new light on a genre considered overworked and exhausted. Ellis effectively describes the differences between the gothic genre and other literary forms and convincingly demonstrates that there is more to the genre than previously thought ... His thorough explanation of Lewis' controversial and revolutionary novel [The Monk] is a wonderful magnifying glass through which to view this politically turbulent period ... In short, Ellis argues cogently for the inclusion of 'gothic' works within serious literary study ... Ellis' work lends credibility to a genre that gained critical notice in the nineteenth century but that has now been dismissed and marginalized. The History of Gothic Fiction is an important contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies and the ongoing critical work that seeks to redefine and diversify the literary canon.

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Book SynopsisContemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism.Table of ContentsPreface; A Short Glossary of Critical Terms; A Short Glossary of Literary Terms; Introduction; Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction: An Introductory Bibliography; 1. Don DeLillo; Don DeLillo Biography; DeLillo on DeLillo; Links to other authors; Reading early DeLillo; Don DeLillo Bibliography; 2. Paul Auster; Paul Auster Biography; Auster on Auster; Links to other authors; Paul Auster Bibliography; 3. Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy Biography; Approaches to Cormac McCarthy; Links to other authors; Cormac McCarthy Bibliography; 4. Rolando Hinojosa; Rolando Hinojosa Biography; Links to other authors; Reading The Klail City Death Trip series; Rolando Hinojosa Bibliography; 5. E. Annie Proulx; E. Annie Proulx Biography; Proulx on Proulx; Links to other authors; E. Annie Proulx Bibliography; 6. Bret Easton Ellis; Bret Easton Ellis Biography; Ellis on Ellis; Links to other authors; Bret Easton Ellis Bibliography; 7. Douglas Coupland; Douglas Coupland Biography; Couplandisms; Links to other authors; Douglas Coupland Bibliography; Conclusion: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon; Thematic Index; Author Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to collect the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates. The selections in this book will enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Postmodernism; 1: The Postmodern Condition; MAPPING POSTMODERNISM; 1. Fredric Jameson, 'The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1991); 2. David Harvey, 'Time-space Compression and the Postmodern Condition' (1989); 3. Andreas Huyssen, 'Mapping the Postmodern' (1986); NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION; 4. Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979); 5. Jean Baudrillard, 'The Precession of Simulacra' (1981); IRONY AND 'DOUBLE-CODING'; 6. Umberto Eco, 'Postmodernism, Irony, The Enjoyable' (1985); 7. Charles Jencks, Post-Modernism Defined' (1986); DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM; 8. Slavoj Zizek 'You May!' (1998); 2: The Postmodern Turn; 9. John Barth, 'The Literature of Exhaustion' (1967); 10. Irving Howe, 'Mass Society and post-modern fiction' (1959); 11. Susan Sontag, 'One Culture and the New Sensibility' (1965); 12. Leslie Fiedler, 'Cross the Border - Close the Gap' (1969); 13. William Spanos, 'The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination' (1972); 14. Ihab Hassan, 'POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography' (1971); 15. Gerald Graff, 'The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough' (1973); 3: Postmodern Poetics; THE NOVEL FORM; 16. Roland Barthes, from S/Z (1970); 17. Mikhail Bakhtin, from 'Dialogue and the Novel' (1981); 18. Patricia Waugh, from Metafiction (1984); TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION; 19. David Lodge, 'Postmodernist Fiction' (1977); 20. Brian McHale, 'Change of Dominant' (1986); 21. Linda Hutcheon, from A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988); POSTMODERN GENRE; 22. Stephano Tani, from The Doomed Detective (1984); 4: Postmodern Politics; POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY; 23. Linda Hutcheon, from The Politics of Postmodernism (1989); 24. Thomas Docherty, 'The Ethics of Alterity' (1988); 25. Paul Maltby, from Dissident Postmodernists (1991); FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM; 26. Meaghan Morris, 'Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism' (1993); 27. Donna Haraway, 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1985); IS THE 'POST' IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE 'POST' IN POSTMODERN?; 28. bell hooks, 'Postmodern Blackness' (1993); 29. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 'The Postcolonial and the Postmodern' (1992); TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA; 30. Veronica Hollinger, 'Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism' (1990); 31. Patrick O'Donnell, 'Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative', (1992); Works Cited.

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Book SynopsisThe work of a highly significant figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century is gathered together for the first time in one authoritative volume.Trade ReviewMichel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life -- Ronald Black An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. -- Thomas Owen Clancy The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. -- Meg Bateman [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea. -- James Robertson Michel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea.

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists.Trade ReviewI applaud the content and organisation of this ambitious collection. The editors have solicited essays from a wide range of world-class scholars, all of whom have provided orginal critiques of a wide variety of contemporary novels. -- Professor Suzette Henke, Department of English, University of Louisville This challenging collection of original essays by a distinguished group of international scholars breaks new ground in situating major contemporary British novelists in their respective postcolonial, postmodern, feminist and realist contexts. -- Professor John Fletcher, Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of East Anglia I applaud the content and organisation of this ambitious collection. The editors have solicited essays from a wide range of world-class scholars, all of whom have provided orginal critiques of a wide variety of contemporary novels. This challenging collection of original essays by a distinguished group of international scholars breaks new ground in situating major contemporary British novelists in their respective postcolonial, postmodern, feminist and realist contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: James Acheson and Sarah Ross A. Realism and Other '-isms': Chapter 1: 'Realism, Dreams, and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro' -- Frederick M. Holmes Chapter 2: 'Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas' --Judith Seaboyer Chapter 3: 'The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh' --Alan Riach Chapter 4: 'Angela Carter's Magic Realism' --David Punter Chapter 5: 'Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman' --Laurence Nicoll Chapter 6: 'One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction' --Daniel Lea B. Postcolonialism and Other '-isms': Chapter 7: 'Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions' --Bruce King Chapter 8: 'Salman Rushdie's Fathers' --Hermione Lee Chapter 9: 'Postcolonialism and 'the Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith' --Bart Moore-Gilbert Chapter 10: 'Mixing and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner's Fiction' --Chantal Zabus C. Feminism and Other '-isms': Chapter 11: 'Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil' -- Sarah Ross Chapter 12: 'Partial to Intensity: The Novels of A.L. Kennedy' --Glenda Norquay Chapter 13: 'Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway' --Dorothy McMillan Chapter 14: 'Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain' --Sarah Sceats Chapter 15: 'Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A.S. Byatt' --Katherine Tarbox Chapter 16: 'Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Storytelling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic'--Paulina Palmer D. Postmodernism and Other '-isms': Chapter 17: '(Re)constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes' --Daniel Bedggood Chapter 18: 'Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd' --David Leon Higdon Chapter 19: 'Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Sublime Terror' --Cairns Craig

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Book SynopsisIn this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman's work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation.Trade ReviewGeoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark. -- Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Geoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark.Table of ContentsContents; Authors' Acknowledgments; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; The Culture of Vision; Daniel T. O'Hara; Autobiographical Introduction; 'Life and Learning'; I The Interpretation of Poetry; 1. Christopher Smart's 'Magnificat'; 2. Evening Star and Evening Land; 3. Wordsworth's Magic Mountains; 4. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis; 5. Romance and Modernity: Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'; 6. Purification and Danger in American Poetry; II Theory and History; 7. Pure Representation; 8. The New Perseus; 9. The Heroics of Realism; 10. Literature High and Low; 11. Romanticism and Anti-Self-consciousness; 12. Text and Spirit; 13. Midrash as Law and Literature; 14. The Voice of the Shuttle; III Positions; 15. Practical Criticism; 16. The Sacred Jungle; 17. Radical Art and Radical Analysis; 18. The Critical Essay between Theory and Tradition; 19. Literary Commentary as Literature; 20. Words and Wounds; 21. Reading, Trauma, Pedagogy; IV Culture; Literature and Social Text; 22. Defining Culture; 23. The Question of Our Speech; 24. Pastoral Vestiges; 25. Realism and 'America'; 26. The Reinvention of Hate; Film; 27. Jeanne Moreau's Lumiere; 28. Spielberg's Schindler's List; The Psychoanalytic Scandal; 29. The Interpreter's Freud; 30. Lacan, Derrida, and the Specular Name; V Memory; 31. Public Memory and its Discontents; 32. Tele-Suffering and Testimony; 33. Poetics after the Holocaust; VI Coda; 34. Passion and Literary Engagement; Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2006 Truman Capote Prize for Literary AchievementGeoffrey Hartman?s interests range over almost the entire field of contemporary literature and culture. In this, the first Reader of his work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation.Hartman, whose book on Wordsworth changed our understanding of that poet, brings theory and close reading together. A major consideration of Freud is accompanied by intensive analyses of Lacan and Derrida, and a psychoesthetic theory of literary genesis is proposed. Popular literature is examined through the American detective novel; Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Bernard Malamud are brought together in an examination of realism; the premodern mode of midrashic interpretation is reintroduced to literary study; and major trends in criticism, including trauma studies, receive attention.Hartman?s assessment of the media revolution and cultural studies is represented by shorter pieces of film criticism as well as his classic essays on ?Public Memory and its Discontents? and ?Tele-Suffering and Testimony? - the latter also describes a pioneering effort to collect on video the experiences of Holocaust survivors.This anthology is both highly readable and, because of its range and intellectual vigour, essential for all those concerned with the fate of the humanities and the future of literary criticism.Features*Leading US critic of contemporary literature and culture, particularly in the areas of poetry, Romanticism, trauma studies, public culture, pedagogy, and literary theory and criticism*Selection ranges across Geoffrey Hartman''s illustrious career with the readings organised into six thematic parts*Publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of Geoffrey Hartman''s first published bookTrade ReviewGeoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark. -- Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Geoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark.Table of ContentsContents; Authors' Acknowledgments; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; The Culture of Vision; Daniel T. O'Hara; Autobiographical Introduction; 'Life and Learning'; I The Interpretation of Poetry; 1. Christopher Smart's 'Magnificat'; 2. Evening Star and Evening Land; 3. Wordsworth's Magic Mountains; 4. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis; 5. Romance and Modernity: Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'; 6. Purification and Danger in American Poetry; II Theory and History; 7. Pure Representation; 8. The New Perseus; 9. The Heroics of Realism; 10. Literature High and Low; 11. Romanticism and Anti-Self-consciousness; 12. Text and Spirit; 13. Midrash as Law and Literature; 14. The Voice of the Shuttle; III Positions; 15. Practical Criticism; 16. The Sacred Jungle; 17. Radical Art and Radical Analysis; 18. The Critical Essay between Theory and Tradition; 19. Literary Commentary as Literature; 20. Words and Wounds; 21. Reading, Trauma, Pedagogy; IV Culture; Literature and Social Text; 22. Defining Culture; 23. The Question of Our Speech; 24. Pastoral Vestiges; 25. Realism and 'America'; 26. The Reinvention of Hate; Film; 27. Jeanne Moreau's Lumiere; 28. Spielberg's Schindler's List; The Psychoanalytic Scandal; 29. The Interpreter's Freud; 30. Lacan, Derrida, and the Specular Name; V Memory; 31. Public Memory and its Discontents; 32. Tele-Suffering and Testimony; 33. Poetics after the Holocaust; VI Coda; 34. Passion and Literary Engagement; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the English Literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history.

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Book SynopsisA survey style introduction to contemporary Native American literature aimed at students with little or no experience of the subject, or of Native American culture or history.Trade ReviewThis is an accessible, informed and informative guide to current Native American writing which will be of use to all students embarking on study of this often contested subject. -- Faith Pullin, University of Edinburgh Journal of American Studies This is an accessible, informed and informative guide to current Native American writing which will be of use to all students embarking on study of this often contested subject.Table of Contents1 Introduction; 2 The Emergence and Development of Native American Literature; 3 Seminal Writers: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko; 4 Writing Women: Louise Erdrich, Anna Lee Walters and Luci Tapahonso; 5 Tricksters and Critics: Simon Ortiz, Louis Owens and Gerald Vizenor; 6 Extending the Canon: Recent Native Writers; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index

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Book SynopsisAn important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; Historical synopsis of Canadian literature in English; Canon-making and literary history in Canada; Indigenous Canadians; About this book; Chapter 1: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (1769); E. Pauline Johnson, selected poetry; Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981); Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters (1986); Thomas King, Green Grass Running Water (1993); Chapter 2: Wilderness, Cities, Regions; L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908); Ethel Wilson, Swamp Angel (1954); Carol Shields, The Republic of Love (1992); Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man (1994); Alice Munro, 'A Wilderness Station'; Margaret Atwood, 'Wilderness Tips'; Chapter 3: Desire; Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese (1925); John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse (1970); Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966); Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (1996); Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997); Chapter 4: Histories and Stories; E. J. Pratt, Brebeuf and His Brethren (1940); Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970); Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974); Daphne Marlatt, Ana Historic (1988); Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (1987); Conclusion; Student Resources; Electronic resources and reference sources; Questions for discussion; Alternative primary texts for chapter topics; Guide to Further Reading; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.Trade ReviewThis promises to be an original and comprehensive work in American literary and cultural studies. -- Professor Bert Bender, Arizona State University This promises to be an original and comprehensive work in American literary and cultural studies.Table of ContentsAmerican Adolescence: The Contemporary Coming-of-Age Novel; Introduction: Contemporary Coming-of-Age: Subject to Change; 1. In the Name of the Father; Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, 2001.; Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone, 1995.; 2. I Change Therefore I Am: Growing up in the Sixties; Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land, 1996.; Geoffrey Wolff, The Age of Consent, 1995.; 3. Citation and Resuscitation; Rick Moody, Purple America, 1997.; Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides, 1993, and Middlessex, 2001.; 4. Language Acquisition: Life Sentences; Scott Bradfield, The History of Luminous Motion, 1989.; Mark Richard, Fishboy, 1993.; 5. Lexicon of Love; Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping, 1981.; Josephine Humphries, Rich in Love, 1987.; 6. Memoirs and Memorials; Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina, 1992.; Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation, 1995.; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.Trade ReviewThis promises to be an original and comprehensive work in American literary and cultural studies. -- Professor Bert Bender, Arizona State University ...a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary American literature... Millard's readings of the coming-of-age novels presented in Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction testify to his admirable critical acumen and encourage readers to explore further the genre along the lines staked out in his book. Moreover, it is a very interesting text in its own right; intellectually stimulating, informed by empathy and political passion. European Journal of American Studies This is a readable, excellent addition to the literature. Highly recommended. Choice This promises to be an original and comprehensive work in American literary and cultural studies. ...a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary American literature... Millard's readings of the coming-of-age novels presented in Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction testify to his admirable critical acumen and encourage readers to explore further the genre along the lines staked out in his book. Moreover, it is a very interesting text in its own right; intellectually stimulating, informed by empathy and political passion. This is a readable, excellent addition to the literature. Highly recommended.Table of ContentsAmerican Adolescence: The Contemporary Coming-of-Age Novel; Introduction: Contemporary Coming-of-Age: Subject to Change; 1. In the Name of the Father; Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, 2001.; Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone, 1995.; 2. I Change Therefore I Am: Growing up in the Sixties; Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land, 1996.; Geoffrey Wolff, The Age of Consent, 1995.; 3. Citation and Resuscitation; Rick Moody, Purple America, 1997.; Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides, 1993, and Middlessex, 2001.; 4. Language Acquisition: Life Sentences; Scott Bradfield, The History of Luminous Motion, 1989.; Mark Richard, Fishboy, 1993.; 5. Lexicon of Love; Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping, 1981.; Josephine Humphries, Rich in Love, 1987.; 6. Memoirs and Memorials; Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina, 1992.; Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation, 1995.; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisBy examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet''s politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid''s poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism.Trade ReviewThis is the first book I've read which takes a patient, detailed, cautious yet essentially humane evaluation of what MacDiarmid's politics were, how they came about and what their lasting significance might be...There are real insights into the poetry and literary practice of the man, and the literary, political and personal milieux of his life. -- Professor Alan Riach, University of Glasgow Given that MacDiarmid may well be the most influential but also the least understood of twentieth-century Scottish intellectuals and nationalists, Lyall's book plays an important role in explaining how a key moment in Scottish history may yet become part of a more usable past...[an] earnest and insightful study. Scottish Studies Review This is the first book I've read which takes a patient, detailed, cautious yet essentially humane evaluation of what MacDiarmid's politics were, how they came about and what their lasting significance might be...There are real insights into the poetry and literary practice of the man, and the literary, political and personal milieux of his life. Given that MacDiarmid may well be the most influential but also the least understood of twentieth-century Scottish intellectuals and nationalists, Lyall's book plays an important role in explaining how a key moment in Scottish history may yet become part of a more usable past...[an] earnest and insightful study.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map; Introduction: Imagining a Scottish Republic; 1. 'Towards a New Scotland': Selfhood, History, and the Scottish Renaissance; 2. Debatable Land; 3. 'A Disgrace to the Community'; 4. At The Edge of the World; 5. 'Ootward Boond Frae Scotland': MacDiarmid, Modernism, and the Masses; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.Trade ReviewA number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past! The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism. An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past. -- Professor Laura Marcus, University of Sussex Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike. -- Vara Neverow, President of the International Virginia Woolf Society A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past! The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism. An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past. Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country''s successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - ''Contexts'', ''Genres'', ''Authors'' and ''Topics'' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature''s capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,Trade ReviewThis formidable enterprise is a perfect blend of expertise and enthusiasm, its critical interventions always edgy and up-to-the-minute. In this big, bold book, Berthold Schoene has gathered all the rays of criticism into one. It is to his credit that the result is a vivid and enlightening kaleidoscope that shows a ceilidh-cum-carnival in full swing. This weighty book is a door-opener, as well as a curtain-raiser, and what it reveals is a roomier and raunchier Scotland than has hitherto been readily envisaged, except in the imaginations of its writers. -- Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow This is a collection that will provoke and enrich debate on Scottish writing. Diverse critical voices, addressing an exciting range of new texts, open up questions that go beyond the twenty-first century context. -- Glenda Norquay, Chair in Scottish Literary Studies, Liverpool John Moores University Convincingly captures the new manifestations of the creative and the critical energies produced during the Scottish devolution and post-devolution ... a vivid pluralistic vision which provocatively reveals not just a Scotland but many varied scotlands. The Hindu Altogether the Companion fulfils the promise of its editor and provides a wide spectrum of material and points of view... There is more than enough here to inform the newcomer to contemporary Scottish literature and to provoke debate among those who are already familiar with the vibrant, changing and developing nature of the beast. Use of English This is a comprehensive, lucky-dip kind of volume, one that will provoke debate on literature, culture, and national politics and at the same time prove that Scottish literature is more than the fiction of well-known figures like James Kelman, Ian Rankin, and Irvine Welsh. Highly recommended. Choice This formidable enterprise is a perfect blend of expertise and enthusiasm, its critical interventions always edgy and up-to-the-minute. In this big, bold book, Berthold Schoene has gathered all the rays of criticism into one. It is to his credit that the result is a vivid and enlightening kaleidoscope that shows a ceilidh-cum-carnival in full swing. This weighty book is a door-opener, as well as a curtain-raiser, and what it reveals is a roomier and raunchier Scotland than has hitherto been readily envisaged, except in the imaginations of its writers. This is a collection that will provoke and enrich debate on Scottish writing. Diverse critical voices, addressing an exciting range of new texts, open up questions that go beyond the twenty-first century context. Convincingly captures the new manifestations of the creative and the critical energies produced during the Scottish devolution and post-devolution ... a vivid pluralistic vision which provocatively reveals not just a Scotland but many varied scotlands. Altogether the Companion fulfils the promise of its editor and provides a wide spectrum of material and points of view... There is more than enough here to inform the newcomer to contemporary Scottish literature and to provoke debate among those who are already familiar with the vibrant, changing and developing nature of the beast. This is a comprehensive, lucky-dip kind of volume, one that will provoke debate on literature, culture, and national politics and at the same time prove that Scottish literature is more than the fiction of well-known figures like James Kelman, Ian Rankin, and Irvine Welsh. Highly recommended.Table of ContentsCONTENTS; Introduction; PART I: Contexts; (1) Going cosmopolitan: reconstituting Scottishness in post-devolution criticism; (Berthold Schoene); (2) Voyages of intent: literature and cultural politics in post-devolution; Scotland (Gavin Wallace); (3) In Tom Paine's kitchen: days of rage and fire; (Suhayl Saadi); (4) The public image: Scottish literature in the media; (Andrew Crumey); (5) Literature, theory, politics: devolution as iteration; (Michael Gardiner); (6) Is that a Scot or am Ah wrang?; (Zoe Strachan); PART II: Genres; (7) The 'New Weegies': the Glasgow novel in the twenty-first century; (Alan Bissett); (8) Devolution and drama: imagining the possible; (Adrienne Scullion); (9) Twenty-one collections for the twenty-first century; (Christopher Whyte); (10) Shifting boundaries: Scottish Gaelic literature after devolution; (Maire Ni Annrachain); (11) Pedlars of their nation's past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and; the new historical novel (Mariadele Boccardi); (12) Scottish television drama and parochial representation; (Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely); (13) Scotland's new house: domesticity and domicile in contemporary; women's poetry (Alice Entwistle); (14) Redevelopment fiction: architecture, town-planning, and 'unhomeliness'; (Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd); (15) Concepts of corruption: crime fiction and the Scottish 'state'; (Gill Plain); (16) A key to the future: hybridity in contemporary children's literature; (Fiona McCulloch); (17) Gaelic prose fiction in English; (Michelle Macleod); PART III: Authors; (18) Towards a Scottish theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead; (Colin Nicholson); (19) Alasdair Gray and post-millennial writing; (Stephen Bernstein); (20) James Kelman and the deterritorialisation of power; (Aaron Kelly); (21) Harvesting Plurality: Andrew Greig and modernism; (Simon Dentith); (22) Radical hospitality: Christopher Whyte and cosmopolitanism; (Fiona Wilson); (23) Iain (M.) Banks: utopia, nationalism and the posthuman; (Gavin Miller); (24) Burying the man that was: Janice Galloway and gender; disorientation (Carole Jones); (25) In/outside: race and citizenship in the work of Jackie Kay; (Matthew Brown); (26) Irvine Welsh: parochialism, pornography and globalisation; (Robert Morace); (27) Clearing space: Kathleen Jamie and ecology; (Louisa Gairn); (28) Don Paterson and poetic autonomy; (Scott Hames); (29) Alan Warner, post-feminism and the emasculated nation; (Berthold Schoene); (30) A.L. Kennedy's dysphoric fictions; (David Borthwick); PART IV: Topics; (31) Between camps: masculinity, race and nation in post-devolution Scotland; (Alice Ferrebe); (32) Crossing the borderline: post-devolution Scottish lesbian and gay writing; (Joanne Winning); (33) Subaltern Scotland: devolution and postcoloniality; (Stefanie Lehner); (34) Renton's bairns: identity and language in the post-Trainspotting novel; (Kirstin Innes); (35) Cultural devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the return of the; postmodern (Matthew McGuire); (36) Alternative sensibilities: devolutionary comedy and Scottish camp; (Ian Brown); (37) Against realism: contemporary Scottish literature and the supernatural; (Kirsty Macdonald); (38) A double realm: Scottish literary translation in the twenty-first century; (John Corbett); (39) Scots abroad: the international reception of Scottish literature; (Katherine Ashley); (40) A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance; novels (Euan Hague and David Stenhouse); (41) Cinema and the economics of representation: public funding of film in; Scotland (Duncan Petrie); (42) Twenty-first-century storytelling: context, performance, renaissance; (Valentina Bold); Notes on contributors; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Historical and Theoretical Contexts 1979-2005; Chapter 1 Narrative Forms: Postmodernism and Realism; Martin Amis, London Fields (1989); Alasdair Gray, Poor Things (1992); Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000); Chapter 2 Writing Contemporary Ethnicities; Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983); Courttia Newland, Soceity Within (1999); Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003); Chapter 3 Gender and Sexuality; Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (1977); Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985); Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (1992); Chapter 4 History, Memory and Writing; Graham Swift, Waterland (1983); A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990); Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001); Chapter 5 Narratives of Cultural Space; Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990); Iain Sinclair, Downriver (1991); Julian Barnes, England, England (1998); Conclusion; Student Resources; Internet Resources; Questions for Discussion; Alternative Primary Texts; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels.Trade ReviewEach essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. Virginia Woolf Bulletin All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. -- Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University and President of the International Virginia Woolf Society Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over." -- Andrea Adolph, Kent State University Stark Campus Woolf Studies Annual Each essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over."Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Such Absences!'; 1. VW Reads Shakespeare, or Her Silence on Master William; 2. 'The Proper Writing of Lives': Biography versus Fiction in the early short stories; 3. Night and Day: the Marriage of Dreams and Realities; 4. Reading People, Reading Texts: 'Byron and Mrs Briggs'; 5. Modernism's Lost Hope: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the printing of Paris; 6. The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction; 7. The Search for Form (ii): Woolf and the Numbers of Time; 8. 'This Moment I Stand On': Woolf and the Spaces in Time; 9. 'Like a Shell on a Sandhill': the World of Things in To the Lighthouse; 10. Constantinople: Woolf at the Crossroads of the Imagination; 11. The Conversation Behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable; 12. 'Cut deep... and scored thick...': Woolf's Later Short Stories; 13. 'Almost Ashamed of England Being so English': Woolf and Englishness; 14. Between the Texts: Woolf's Acts of Revision.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza: Beginnings, Warren Montag; 2. Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lazra; 3. Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin, Veronique M. Foti; 4. Karl Marx, Robert C. Holub; 5. Charles Baudelaire and Stephane Mallarme, Elizabeth Constable; 6. Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert C. Holub; 7. Sigmund Freud, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 8. Ferdinand de Saussure and Structural Linguistics, Kenneth Womack; 9. Edmund Husserl, Claire Colebrook; 10. Phenomenology, Ullrich Michael Haase; 11. Gaston Bachelard and George Canguilhem: Epistemology in France, Alison Ross and Amir Ahmadi; 12. Jean Paulhan and/versus Francis Ponge, Jan Baetens; 13. Gyorgy Lukacs, Mitchell R. Lewis; 14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum, Jan Mukarovsky, Victor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynyanov, Roman Jakobson, Kenneth Womack; 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Flesch; 16. Martin Heidegger, Claire Colebrook; 17. Antonio Gramsci, Stephen Shapiro; 18. Walter Benjamin, Jeremy Tambling; 19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden, Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Geneva School, Luke Ferretter; 20. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas, Kenneth Surin; 21. Mikhail Bakhtin, R. Brandon Kershner; 22. Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, Arkady Plotnitsky; 23. Bertolt Brecht, Loren Kruger; 24. Jacques Lacan, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojeve, John Hyppolite, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Michel Rabate; 26. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Existentialism, Mark Currie; 27. Emmanuel Levinas, Kevin Hart; 28. Simone de Beauvoir and French Feminism, Karen Green; 29. Claude Levi-Strauss, Boris Wiseman; 30. Jean Genet, Alain-Michel Rocheleau; 31. Paul Ricoeur, Martin McQuillan; 32. Roland Barthes, Nick Mansfield; 33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov and Gerard Genette, Dirk de Geest; 34. Louis Althusser and his Circle, Warren Montag; 35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, and the School of Konstanz, Jeremy Lane; 36. Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard: The Suspicion of Metanarratives, Garry Leonard; 37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu and Louis Marin, Brian Niro; 38. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Claire Colebrook; 39. Michel Foucault, John Brannigan; 40. Jacques Derrida, Kevin Hart; 41. Luce Irigaray, Ewa Ziarek; 42. Christian Metz, Marcia Butzel; 43. Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Lynn A. Higgins; 44. Umberto Eco, SunHee Kim Gertz; 45. Modernities: Paul Virilio, Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben, David Punter; 46. Helene Cixous, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, Heesok Chang; 48. Julia Kristeva, Joan Brandt; 49. Slavoj Zizek, Michael Walsh; 50. Cahiers du Cinema, Maureen Turim; 51. Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Noveau Roman to the Oulipo, Jean Baetens; 52. Tel Quel, Jean-Michel Rabate; 53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman, Monique Wittig, Michele Le Doeuff, Nicole Fluhr; 54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France, Nicholas T. Rand; Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold, Ortwin de Graef; 2. John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State, Jonathan Loesberg; 3. Oscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 4. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson, Jeremy Tambling; 5. James Joyce: Theories of Literature, Jean Michel Rabate; 6. Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics, Jane Goldman; 7. T. S. Eliot, K. M. Newton; 8. After the "Cambridge School": F. R. Leavis, Jeremy Tambling; 9. J. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory, William Flesch; 10. Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies, David Alderson; 11. Raymond Williams, Andrew Milner; 12. Stuart Hall, John Brannigan; 13. Terry Eagleton, Moyra Haslett; 14. Screen, Antony Easthope; 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy, Niall Lucy; 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain, Peter Barry; 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism, Ashley Tauchert; 18. Cultural Studies, Ian Baucom; 19. Cultural Materialism, John Brannigan; 20. Postcolonial Studies, Gail Ching-Liang Low; 21. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory, John M. Clum; 22. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Post-Marxism, Paul Bowman; 23. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies, Leigh Wilson; 24. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities, Gillian Howie; 25. British Poststructuralism since 1968, Martin McQuillan; 26. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995, Peter Barry; Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics, Kenneth Womack; 2. The New Criticism, Charles Altieri; 3. The Chicago School, William Baker; 4. Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky; 5. The Encounter with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism, Mark Currie; 6. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Norman Holland, Stanley Fish and David Bleich, Jeremy Lane; 7. The Yale Critics? J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Ortwin de Graef; 8. Deconstruction of America, William Flesch; 9. Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary and Cultural Criticism, Carolyn Lesjak; 10. Edward W. Said, John Kucich; 11. American Feminisms: Images of Women and Gynocriticism, Ruth Robbins; 12. Feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s: The Encounter with Poststructuralism and Gender Studies, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 13. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 14. Feminists of Color, Anne Donadey; 15. Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism, Virginia Mason Vaughan; 16. Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Theory, David Van Leer; 17. Postcolonial Studies, Malini Johar Schueller; 18. Cultural Studies and Multiculturalism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 19. African-American Studies, Yun Hsing Wu; 20. Chicano/a Literature, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes; 21. Film Studies, Toby Miller; 22. Feminist Film Studies and Film Theory, Julian Wolfreys; 23. Ethical Criticism, Kenneth Womack; 24. Postmodernism, Marcel Cornis-Pope; 25. The Role of Journals in Theoretical Debate, Kate Flint; 26. Whiteness Studies, Betsy Nies; 27. Masculinity and Cultural Studies, David Alderson; 28. Comics Studies, Christopher Eklund; 29. Anglophone Canadian Literary Studies, Fiona Tolan; 30. Francophone Canadian Literature, Elodie Rousselot; Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1: Experimental Innovations After World War II; Chapter 2: Revisiting the American Dream; Chapter 3: African-American Theater: Voices from the Margins; Chapter 4: Avant-Garde Theater Groups: Revolutions in Performance; Chapter 5: Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; Chapter 6: The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; Chapter 7: Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theater of the Vietnam War; Chapter 8: The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making the Invisible Visible; Conclusion; Guide to Further Reading; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisAn incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Chicago, 1893; Chapter 1: The Making of American Modernism; Chapter 2: Tales of New York City: The Birth of the Modern Metropolis; Chapter 3: Regional American Modernism; Chapter 4: Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Lost Generation; Chapter 5: 'When Harlem Was in Vogue': African American Modernism; Chapter 6: 'Make it New!': Experiments in Poetry and Drama; Conclusion: New York, 1939; Student Resources; Glossary; Electronic Resources and Reference Sources; Questions for Discussion; Guide to Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Short Stories; Novels; 1. Literary Contexts; Virginia Woolf; The New Yorker; Women's Magazine Fiction; Women's Madness Narratives; Ted Hughes; 2. Plath's Poetry and Fiction; Smith, 1954-55; Cambridge, 1956-57; Falcon Yard, 1957-58; Boston and Yaddo, 1958-59; The Bell Jar, 1961; Double Exposure, 1962-63; 3. The Politics of Plath's Fiction; Political Development; Race Stories; Cold War Stories; Crazy About the Rosenbergs; 'I Could Love a Russian Boy'; Strange Love; Growing Up in World War II; 4. Gender and Society in The Bell Jar; Sex; Medicine; Psychiatry; Beauty; Marriage; 'Femininity'; 5. Gender and Society in Plath's Short Stories; Plath's Women's Magazine Fiction; Home Is Where the Heart Is; Feminine Identities; Violence and Patriarchy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies and interprets the longstanding, transatlantic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.Trade ReviewThis is a lively and nuanced account of a fascinating subject. Crowell's readings span topics from the female dandy, to decadence, to the politics of class, nationality, race and gender, offering a fresh perspective on these canonical and lesser known texts. -- Emma Sutton, School of English, The University of St Andrews Crowell recuperates a transatlantic cultural heritage about which too little has been written ! [An] engaging and historically astute study. SEL - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 This is a lively and nuanced account of a fascinating subject. Crowell's readings span topics from the female dandy, to decadence, to the politics of class, nationality, race and gender, offering a fresh perspective on these canonical and lesser known texts. Crowell recuperates a transatlantic cultural heritage about which too little has been written ! [An] engaging and historically astute study.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction:; Sham Grandeurs, Sham Chivalries: Ascendancy and Aristocracy in Ireland and the American South; Chapter One:; Oaks, Serpents, and Dandies: Pseudoaristocracy in Maria; Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn; Chapter Two:; The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through; Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha; Chapter Three:; Ferocious Beauty: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter,; and the Modernist Female Dandy; Epilogue:; The Dandy Unmasked.

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Book SynopsisThis new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance to, the conflict. It examines popular and middlebrow writers, as well as literary authors.Table of ContentsIllustrations; General Editor's Preface; Preface; 1. Introduction; I. WAR; 2. Documenting; 3. Desiring; 4. Killing; II. POSTWAR; 5. Escaping; 6. Grieving; 7. Adjusting; III. 'PEACE'; 8. Atomizing; Works Cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers a reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the Second World War. It includes a detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh.

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Book SynopsisThis engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British modernist literature produced between 1900 and 1945.Each chapter focuses on a single decade, a distinct genre and a specific theme: the 1900s - the short story - gender and sexuality; the 1910s - poetry - war, technology and propaganda; the 1920s - the novel - new modes of literary expression; the 1930s - the documentary - political engagement. A final chapter covers the 1940s and beyond looking at new literary and artistic movements and ?other? modernisms. Covering canonical texts and lesser-known works, Modernist Literature introduces students to current debates in Modernism and a range of literature in its historical and aesthetic contexts.Features:*Examines four distinct genres - the short story, poetry, novel and documentary - decade-by-decade.*Combines close readings with cultural and political analyses of British modernism.*Includes a Chronology and Further Readings with each chapter.Table of ContentsIntroduction: After Victoria 1. The Short Story and the New Woman 2. Poetry - Technology and War 3. The Novel and Modern Fashions 4. Documenting the Politics of Engagement Coda - In the Midst of War

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Book SynopsisPublished in association with the British Association for American Studies, this innovative series has become an indispensable collection in American Studies. Each volume tackles an important area and is written by an accepted academic expert within the discipline. Books selected for the series are clearly written introductions designed to offer students definitive short surveys of key topics in the field.This book offers a reappraisal of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It is a book about some of the greatest postwar American writers, who consistently found in the short story a form well adapted to their most fundamental preoccupations, and about the literary cultures within which they wrote: the magazines they published in; the prizes they did or did not win; the university courses which taught them how to write, or enabled them to teach others how to write; and their (more often than not disappointing) sales figures. The book includes new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O''Connor, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore, Tim O''Brien, Denis Johnson, Junot Diaz, Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Bezmozgis, Edward P. Jones, David Foster Wallace, Gish Jen, A. M. Homes and Lydia Davis.Trade ReviewThis impeccably researched account is accomplished in both a narrow and wider reading of the short story and its history. Sensitive to the nuances of meaning and effect in individual short stories, it is equally perceptive in its analysis of the broader historical and literary/cultural trends which influence short fiction, and which, in turn it has influenced... This is an invaluable introduction to this fertile period in American literature. Routledge ABES This impeccably researched account is accomplished in both a narrow and wider reading of the short story and its history. Sensitive to the nuances of meaning and effect in individual short stories, it is equally perceptive in its analysis of the broader historical and literary/cultural trends which influence short fiction, and which, in turn it has influenced... This is an invaluable introduction to this fertile period in American literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: The American Short Story to 1950; 1. How to Write Short Stories; 2. The New Yorker Short Story at Mid-century; 3. Experimental Fiction in the 60s and 70s; 4. 'Experiment is Out, Concern is In'; 5. Turning Points and the American Short Story Today; 6. Sequences and Accumulations; Conclusion; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.Trade ReviewJane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. -- Nancy L Paxton Virginia Woolf Miscellany ...carefully researched and clearly written. Woolf Studies Annual Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. ...carefully researched and clearly written.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIntroduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studiesTrade Review..offers a new appoach for presenting literary culture in a period of intense social change... -- TLS ..offers a new appoach for presenting literary culture in a period of intense social change...Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; When was modernism?; What was modernism?; Modernist poetry: T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of K. Alfred Prufrock'; Modernist prose: James Joyce's Ulysses; Chapter 1. Modernist Networks 1914-1928: Futurists, Imagists, Vorticists, Dadaists; London, 1914; New York City, 1917; Paris, 1922; 1928; Chapter 2. Modernism and Geography; Modernism and Realism; Dublin; Exiled Writing; Chapter 3. Sex, Obscenity, Censorship; Law and Literature; Modernism and Feminism; Sexuality; Chapter 4. Modernism and Mass Culture; Modernist authority; Cinema; Popular Fiction and Journalism; Chapter 5. Modernism and Politics; Revolution and Economics; War; Conclusion; Student Resources; Electronic Resources; Glossary; Questions for Discussion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation''s languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.Table of ContentsIntroduction Feeling Independent, Matt McGuire and Colin Nicholson; 1. The Poetics of Devolution, Alan Riach; 2. Scottish Women's Poetry since the 1970s, Fiona Wilson; 3. Contemporary Poetry in Scots, Tom Hubbard; 4. Contemporary Gaelic Poetry, Niall O'Gallagher; 5. A Democracy of Voices , Kirsten Matthews; 6. Recent Scottish Poetry, Colin Nicholson; 7. Edwin Morgan, Matt McGuire and Colin Nicholson; 8. Kenneth White and John Burnside, Marco Fazzini; 9. Aonghas MacNeacail, Peter McKay; 10. Kathleen Jamie, Matt McGuire; 11. Kenneth White, Cairns Craig; 12. Don Paterson, Alan Gillis; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Muriel Spark; Introduction, Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley; 1 Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography, David Goldie; 2 Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark, Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 3 Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction, Michael Gardiner; 4 The Stranger Spark, Marilyn Reizbaum; 5 Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary, Adam Piette; 6 Spark, modernism and postmodernism, Matthew Wickman; 7 Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist, Gerard Carruthers; 8 Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism, Paddy Lyons; 9 The Post-war Contexts of Spark's Writing, Randall Stevenson; 10 Muriel Spark's Crimes of Wit, Drew Milne; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community.Trade ReviewThe Cosmopolitan Novel offers what is - to my mind - the best explanation to date for the continuing success of British fiction. Boldly counterintuitive and always intelligent, this book forces us to consider how contemporary fiction might be refiguring the modern subject for the twenty-first century and whether, in doing so, it also continues the novel's generic mission of "mimicking the world". -- Professor Nancy Armstrong, Duke University Berthold Schoene offers us a refreshing look at creative world-making in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. Schoene's elegant readings - of pre-canonical and better-known writers - establish a cosmopolitan tradition that effectively disaggregates common conceptions of the monolithic "West." The reach of this work is ambitious; yet Schoene carries off an eminently convincing argument, provocative in its incitements for future literary studies of global culture. -- Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California at Santa Barbara The Cosmopolitan Novel offers what is - to my mind - the best explanation to date for the continuing success of British fiction. Boldly counterintuitive and always intelligent, this book forces us to consider how contemporary fiction might be refiguring the modern subject for the twenty-first century and whether, in doing so, it also continues the novel's generic mission of "mimicking the world". Berthold Schoene offers us a refreshing look at creative world-making in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. Schoene's elegant readings - of pre-canonical and better-known writers - establish a cosmopolitan tradition that effectively disaggregates common conceptions of the monolithic "West." The reach of this work is ambitious; yet Schoene carries off an eminently convincing argument, provocative in its incitements for future literary studies of global culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction; I. IMAGINING COSMOPOLITICS: 1. Families against the world: Ian McEwan; 2. James Kelman's cosmopolitan jeremiads; II. TOUR DU MONDE: 3. The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think; III. CREATING THE WORLD: 4. Global noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; 5. Suburban worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: the cosmopolitan imagination; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and social context, It examines the shifting role of the playwright, the dominant genres and emerging styles of the past decade, and how they are related.Beginning with an examination of how dramatic literature and the writer are placed in the contemporary theatre, the book then provides detailed analyses of the texts, companies and writing processes involved in six different professional contexts: new writing, verbatim theatre, writing and devising, Black and Asian theatre, writing for young people, and adaptation and transposition. The chapters cover contemporary practitioners, including Simon Stephens, Gregory Burke, Robin Soans, Alecky Blythe, Kneehigh Theatre, Punchdrunk, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edward Bond, Filter Theatre and Headlong, and offers detailed case studies and examples of their work.Key FeaturesThe first book to examine contemporary British drama from the In-Yer-Face era (1995-2000) to the present day and track the changes and developments through this periodExtended case studies of Simon Stephens, Gregory Burke and Caryl Churchill and new British drama in the early twenty-first centuryFocus on recent adaptation, including Kneehigh Theatre, Punchdrunk, Filter Theatre and HeadlongTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: In-Yer-Face Theatre and Legacies of the New Writing Boom; Chapter 2: Verbatim Theatre - The Rise of a Political Voice; Chapter 3: Writing and Devising - The Call for Collaboration; Chapter 4: Black and Asian Writers - A Question of Representation; Chapter 5: Theatre for Young People - Audiences of Today; Chapter 6: Adaptation and Transposition - Reinterpreting the Past; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.

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Book SynopsisPlaces Woolfs writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930sBringing together studies in fashion, body culture and modernism, these 6 chapters place Woolfs writing in the context of contemporary European fashions, sartorial practices and projects of dress reform. Drawing on theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel, the book explores the modernist fascination with clothes as objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.Clothes facilitate explorations in modern materialism by, for instance, informing surrealist attempts to think the materiality of things outside the system of commodities and their fetishisation. Woolfs work as a cultural analyst and writer of fiction provides illuminating illustrations of all of these aspects, ''thinking through clothes'' in representations of the present, investigations of the archives of the past, and projections for the future.Trade ReviewKoppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued. Routledge ABESTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Modern Clothes-Consciousness; 2. From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne; 3. Fashion and Literary Modernity; 4. Modernism Against Fashion; 5. Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies, and the Nude Future; 6. Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture; Bibliography; Index.

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