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.

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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 ...

1 Demonstrate critical understanding of some major twentieth-century authors and texts in the genres of prose fiction and poetry. 2 Locate these texts in the contexts of literary modernism or ...

Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how ... It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form prose ...

This chapter considers how the zonbi has served twentieth-century Haitian writers as a valuable trope through which to account for and contest the horrors of everyday life under and in the wake of ...