Another recurring note, Frank finds, is the 20th century novel’s desire to, as H.G. Wells put it, “get the frame into the picture” and thus explore its own artificiality.

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 ...

Provides students with a grounding in the major authors and motifs of 20th- and 21st-century in literature in conjunction with political and cultural changes across the periods. Additional Information ...

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Because of books like Paul Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), twentieth-century styles in art and literature are often explained as responses to the rupture in Western self ...

By Janice Ho, assistant professor of English. Cambridge University Press. Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in ...

And amid the ruins of “progress” it is art, and particularly literature, that has proved the voice of the resistance. G.K. Chesterton at work (photo: Wikimedia Commons) Joseph Pearce Blogs ...

Not much is known about Janet Halverson, who designed the book covers for titans of the 20th century literary scene: She was born in Maine in 1926; spent her youth in New Haven; worked in New York ...

This course will help students develop a solid understanding of 20th and 21st century Spanish literary and culture, and its relevance within a larger European and global context. Prerequisites.

The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century By Adam Kirsch (W. W. Norton, 279 pages, $22) I am a mark for a good survey, either in book or college-course ...

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't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive. LA Times Story by Ilana Masad ...