Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
Fictions of Power in English Literature: 1900-1950
1st Edition
By Lee Horsley
April 20, 2017
As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader. Lee Horsley explores fictional representations of political power during this period, surveying a wide range ...
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger
1st Edition
By Richard Kirkland
January 13, 2017
This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio ...
The Other Sylvia Plath
1st Edition
By Tracy Brain
March 21, 2001
Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's ...
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present
1st Edition
By Roger Luckhurst, Peter Marks
June 09, 1999
At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature...
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
1st Edition
By Neil Roberts
March 08, 1999
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those ...
The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion & Beyond
1st Edition
By Dr. Paul Bentley
January 22, 1998
This text provides a lucid and accessible introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, a major figure in twentieth- century poetry whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with the human mind. It is also the first full length study to place Hughes's poetry in the context...
The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism
1st Edition
By Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton
July 10, 1997
Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s....
Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After
1st Edition
By Keith Williams, Steven Matthews
May 16, 1997
Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change.The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the...