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Analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s onwards, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and national identities, and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. This title includes discussion of film, television and, popular music, as well as diverse literary texts.

Analyses Irene Nemirovsky's literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. This book examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, including the close relationship between politics and literature.

Analyzes the engagement with Hollywood by Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first decades of the 20th century.

While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This work argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.

Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott.

This book brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a global audience for the first time, embedding it within literary developments worldwide. Drawing on postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine t

New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation to community. With a non-exclusive focus on narrative, the essays included provide innovative and theoretically informed readings of canonical modernist authors as well as non-canonical late

Breaking new critical ground, New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.

James JoyceΓÇÖs preoccupation with spaceΓÇöbe it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or opticalΓÇöis a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come together to evaluate the perception and mental construction of space, as it is evoked through JoyceΓÇÖs writing. The aim is to bring together several recent trends of literary research and criticism to bear on the notion of space in its most concrete sense. The essays move dialectically out of an immediate focus on the phenomenological and intra-psychic, into broader and wider meditations on the social, urban and collective. As JoyceΓÇÖs formal experiments appear the response to the difficulty of enunciating truly the experience of lived space, this eventually leads us to textual and linguistic space. The final contribution evokes the space with which Joyce worked daily, that of his manuscriptsΓÇöor what he called "paperspace." With essays addressing all of Joyce''s major works, this volume is a critical contribution to our understanding of modernism, as well as of the relationship between space, language, and literature.

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them.

This collection presents a counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK, tracing the reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds from the late 70s to the present.

English has become the major language of contemporary Jewish literature. This book shows the transnational character of that literature and how traditional viewpoints need to be reassessed.

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well.

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott.

Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture.

This book brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a global audience for the first time, embedding it within literary developments worldwide. Drawing on postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their local-historical contexts while engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. It sets new directions for further scholarship on a body of writing that has much to say to those interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, and literary form and content.

A collection of essays that provide a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the literatures in English. This book, based on a plurality of theoretical frameworks, addresses this lack and initiates the scholarly exploration of transnational and transcultural Anglophone Jewish literature as one of the English literatures.