The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Santin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316516482 |
This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Christos Hadjiyiannis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2022-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108840523 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Miller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2021-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108838278 |
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Evgeny Dobrenko |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2011-02-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139828231 |
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 American Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Parrish |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107013135 |
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2006-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521841321 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2009-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139828339 |
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.