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Queer literature isn’t just a modern phenomenon; it boasts a rich and diverse history that spans centuries. From the lyrical ...
Stranger Than Fiction’s lasting achievement is to show how the 20th-century novel — that sprawling, capacious, international form — still informs not just how we read and write, but how we live.
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.
Book Review. Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. By Edwin Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 480 pages, $33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a ...
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-27096-4. ... all presented in sinewy prose ...
Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious. His article of faith is that the most demanding ...
20th Century British Studies covers canonical texts as well as popular culture, postcolonial studies and cultural studies. Skip to Content ... we take an approach to the study of 20th-century British ...
Fiction in translation: The Deserters traverses 20th century and brims with interesting ideas Works by Mathias Enard, Georgi Gospodinov, Gaëlle Bélem, Elisa Levi and Solvej Balle ...
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 ...
Imagine the novel itself as a character in a story, as Edwin Frank does in his exciting literary study “Stranger Than Fiction.” At the start of the 20th century, change is the order of the day.
Stranger Than Fiction, Edwin Frank’s magisterial book about the 20th-century novel as a cultural phenomenon, is a must-buy for anyone who takes more than a passing interest in fiction writing ...