In the writing of literary history, the 20th-century English novel tends to be customarily divided into modernist fiction up to the end of World War II on the one hand and post-war, postmodernist and contemporary fiction on the other. This customary division has to a certain extent obscured the full complexity of the trajectory of the English novel from its rise to eminence as an emphatically literary genre in the early 20th century to its late-20th-century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. The Handbook of the English Novel, 1900-2000 addresses this problem by...
In the writing of literary history, the 20th-century English novel tends to be customarily divided into modernist fiction up to the end of World Wa...
This handbook offers students and researchers compact orientation in their study of intermedial phenomena in Anglophone literary texts and cultures by introducing them to current academic debates, theoretical concepts and methodologies. By combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring, it introduces students and scholars alike to a vast field of research which encompasses concepts such as intermediality, multi- and plurimediality, intermedial reference, transmediality, ekphrasis, as well as related concepts such as visual culture, remediation, adaptation, and multimodality,...
This handbook offers students and researchers compact orientation in their study of intermedial phenomena in Anglophone literary texts and cultures...
Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of 'influence, ' transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of...
Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revisio...
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural...
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origi...
