This book collects, for the first time, Colm T¾ibÝn's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, T¾ibÝn brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, T¾ibÝn is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ......
This book analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this book, Howell investigates the ways in which marginalized memory communities resist, rewrite, and/or repair institutionalized history in popular culture.
The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France's colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. Algeria emerged from colonial domination to negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration. Radical ......
Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphaels acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the authors eventful and provocative life, opinions and times drawn from his living and breathing cahiers and journals. `Shrewd, funny, gossipy and elegantly written, as Jeremy Lewis said in the Literary Review, these writings ......
The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.
The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors ......
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This major new work by a distinguished scholar is the result of a life-time's fascination with Faulkner, whom the author met. His reflections on these meetings are a unique insight into the mind of a man who was notorious for his wish for privacy. So, too, is his analysis of the works of the great novelist and Nobel Prize winner.
Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880
What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly charged intersection of sexuality and romantic love; it is a space where gender is imagined and enacted. In A Craving Vacancy, Susan Ostrov Weisser examines ......
