"Modern Confessional Writing" offers the first comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays in this collection take as their subject confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, including the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide range of examples the contributors to this volume evaluate - and in most cases critique - conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary confession, and its assumed relationship to truth authority and...
"Modern Confessional Writing" offers the first comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays in this collectio...
This book focuses on a little-known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps, and will be of interest to those studying modern French literature, women's studies and the Holocaust.
This book focuses on a little-known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps, and will be of interest to those ...
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organizing, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted - in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere - in some twenty million dead. This collection of essays analyzes the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe, and explores the various thematic and stylistic trends that Cold War hostilities...
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and ...
Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hollinghurst, Cooper, Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, w
Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hol...
This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous, multivalent sign for established figures like Horacio Quiroga, Alejo Carpentier and Mario de Andrade, as well as less renowned writers like the Mexican Carlos Noriega Hope, the Chilean Vera Zouroff and the Cuban Guillermo Villarronda. Hollywood's arrival on the scene placed such writers in a bind, as many felt compelled to emulate the "artistry" of a medium dominated by a nation posing a...
This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th c...
This study examines the impact of racial and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers, including Hemingway, Joyce, and Roth, during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these authors and others, Davison demonstrates how religious-based prejudices as well as doctrinal Judaic concepts were sustained in the discourse of race and gender surrounding "the Jew." In general, the project thus engages a dynamic composed of the historically constitutive Jewish racial portrait, the psychosexual impact of that racial theory as internalized...
This study examines the impact of racial and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers, including Hemingway, Joy...
This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi's works - from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction stories - identifying and tracing multiple narratives of embodiment and disembodiment across his oeuvre. These narratives range from the abject, disembodied condition of prisoners in Auschwitz, to posthuman or cyborg individuals, whose bodies merge with technological devices. Levi's representations of bodies are explored in relation to theories of...
This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discus...
John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed attention.
John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. Thi...
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of 'Invisible Cities'.
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawi...
This text explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of them pioneered an idiosyncratic form of writing that challenged the rigidly gendered bounds of 19th century food writing to establish a 20th century tradition that celebrates female appetite.
This text explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of them pio...
