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To address these questions, the entries are generally organized into three primary divisions: (1) an opening section on why the author's work has a significant or distinctive place in Holocaust literature, (2) a second section containing information on the author's biography, and (3) a critical examination of the highlights of the author's work.

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Alphabetical listings cover topics and individuals central to post-colonial studies. They discuss the contributions of novelists and theoreticians, summarize the literature of entire nations, define key concepts, and outline the history of the theoretical discussion. Entries are cross referenced, an

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By analyzing the Holocaust poetry of Dan Pagis and correlating it to his biography through the identifying tropes of Pagis's literature, this book reveals that the speakers of Pagis' poems embody a resistance to traditional historical, temporal, and structural narratives while also outlining the scarring effects of trauma continually revisited through poetic engagement.

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Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender.

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Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, mad

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Bridging what is often perceived as a divide between the thriller and literary fiction, Eric Ambler's eighteen novels undertake a wide-ranging critique of modernity. Among the twentieth-century developments he examines are totalitarianism, corporatism, espionage, social Darwinism, terrorism, political autocracy, and foreign intervention.

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Focussing on the many exchanges and the rich relationships that these intersections have created from the modernist to the postmodernist period, this book covers such writers, thinkers and artists as Jacques Derrida, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing and Philip K Dick.

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Introducing the work of 6 contemporary satiric novelists through contemporary theory, this book explores the possibility of reading and criticism after postmodernism. It delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism.

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Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These e

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A pioneering work in comparative European literature by a leading American scholar. >

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The first to systematically examine Waughs relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines his departure from high modernism, which took the form of an outward turn privileging exteriority over the interiority of consciousness, foregrounding talk and drawing on cinema, comedy, and satire.

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Surveys the work of Evelyn Waugh and his literary explorations of the themes of Catholicism, society and the family.

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Examines the ongoing construction of Jewish identity in 20th century German culture.

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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example

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An exploration of the paradigm of alienation in post-war literature through close readings of nine novels. It details how nine different 'outsider' authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. It reviews the novels that were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years).