How novels changed in the 20th century, and why
There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...
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Amado Lecture to Explore Twentieth-Century Jewish Children’s Literature
Miriam Udel, associate professor of German studies, and London Evans, director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at ...
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
This is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth ... this century drama has emerged ...
American literature in the Trump years
Great writers in the Trump years need to open up their eyes to take in all of America — not just echo the literary and ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American literature, cinema and art. An international team of contributors examines the special contribution of African Americans and of ...
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Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.
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Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History
Comparative literature of the twentieth century leading up to and including the Cold War. (a) Study of major authors (prose, poetry and drama, in English translation where relevant) on both sides of ...
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Richard Millington
Richard Millington teaches courses in American literature, with a focus on writers of the 19th century and on 20th-century multiethnic literature. He has written on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather ...