This interdisciplinary study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smiths fiction, exploring her unique stylistic choices and engagement with a wide range of contemporary issues. Through close readings of her novels and short stories, the author reveals...Lasīt vairāk
It is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions: folklore, mythology, childrens and young...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the complex role space and movement play in the representation of South Asian diasporic communities in contemporary diaspora literature and films, the question of female empowerment in neoliberal Western cities, and the impact...Lasīt vairāk
This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today....Lasīt vairāk
Over 300 anthologies of womens short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book....Lasīt vairāk
This book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a variety of perspectives....Lasīt vairāk
Blending close reading with cultural history, Puzzling Modernism offers a nuanced view of American literary history from a time, not unlike our own, in which nativism, intolerance, and fear were endemic....Lasīt vairāk
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era serves as an essential window for international audiences to understand the rapid development of China over more than three decades and offers a critical interpretation of Chinese literature during th...Lasīt vairāk
It analyzes the cultural narratives through which imperialism, white supremacy, and misogyny appropriate rights discourse to pose at once as savior and victim. While literary humanitarianism promotes rights as a contest of victimhood and disconnects...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research....Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume brings together global perspectives on the works of Jia Pingwa (1952), one of the most important writers of contemporary China. It aims to promote dialogue on contemporary Chinese literature between the Chinese- and English-speaki...Lasīt vairāk
Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women historically and presently....Lasīt vairāk
Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history mutually shape identities as formative processes, James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk create portraits adapting bildung to chart the becoming of the...Lasīt vairāk
World Literature combines theoretical explorations and pedagogy to explore approaches to teaching some of the key concepts, issues, and topics in world literary studies. This collection offers accessible guide to advanced undergraduate and postgradu...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of double-lyrics, poems which have become two...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn Waugh and will persuade those familiar with it to look at it afresh....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent. But none who read it will ever view the most mod...Lasīt vairāk
Since the late 1990s, South Korean cultural products such as pop music, TV drama, and film have shaped the countrys image around the world. This book explores these three internationally best-known media of the Korean Wave global phenomenon, along w...Lasīt vairāk
