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 ...

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.

Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War is an innovative study ... it argues that to fully understand the relationship between modern warfare and literary art, we must learn to engage ...

Comparative literature of the twentieth century leading up to and including the Cold War ... with a focus on the recurrent cultural themes: social Utopia/Dystopia; art with a social/political function ...

In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define ...

the main focus in comparative literature has been the literature of the large Western language groups. The discipline has studied several of the most significant authors of the 20th century both in ...

they don’t constitute a particular or recognizable literary tradition. “My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for ...