A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art. At its heart are 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The more than sixty contributors include some the most distinguished modernist scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.
A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture traces the creative energy that surged in new directions in the United States after World War II. Each of the contributors approaches a particular aspect of postwar literature, film, music, or drama from his or her own perspective. Yet taken together, their contributions demonstrate how different genres and approaches interacted and opened up new paths through this period.
The first of a planned three-volume series sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, this work covers the authors of that region. (Volume 2 will cover nonauthor entities such as themes, sites, and movements, and Volume 3 will provide a literary history of the Midwest.) Given the strength of this first volume, scholars and literature buffs will no doubt eagerly await the rest. Entries highlight 400 authors and critics, chosen for having a "significant continuing connection" to the Midwest region.
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.
A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture.
From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine's "Madame Doubtfire", to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson's "Tracy Beaker", it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in "The Family in English Children's Literature", Ann Alston argues that this is far from the case. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children's literature, the desire for the happy, contented nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children's literature.
