The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth Century English Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth Century English Novel
Author: Robert L. Caserio
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139828338

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The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Russian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Russian Literature
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139828239

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In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth Century American Novel and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth Century American Novel and Politics
Author: Bryan Santin
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781316516485

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This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry
Author: Neil Corcoran
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781139828109

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The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature

The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature
Author: Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521820774

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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty First Century American Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty First Century American Fiction
Author: Joshua Miller
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108838276

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This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel
Author: Joshua L. Miller
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781107083950

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This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics
Author: Christos Hadjiyiannis,Rachel Potter
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108840521

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Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.