20th Century

Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche...

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing

Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing...

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens and their response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that...

The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe.This book's contribution to the...

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy. To achieve this,...

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell’s fiction. Ronald Binns provides a comprehensive account of the development of this idiosyncratic Anglo-Irish novelist’s career. Farrell’s Empire trilogy was...

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose have influenced a wide range of contemporary writers. This study, originally published in 1984, considers the...

Das Songbuch der „Hauspostille“ sowie die Stücke „Baal“, „Im Dickicht“ und „Mann ist Mann“ reichten der „Wiener Morgenpost“ bereits 1927 aus, um Bert Brecht in das Pantheon der Unsterblichen aufzunehmen. Gleichzeitig feierte die deutsche Presse den...

Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie für eine neue Unterhaltungskultur, Rausch, Dekadenz und revolutionäre Umbrüche in Kunst, Kultur und...

In nearly all his literary works, Vladimir Nabokov inscribed networks of trees to create meaningful patterns of significance around one or more of his passionate interests – in consciousness, memory, creativity, epistemology, ethics, and love, with a...

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism...