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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Media, memory, and the First World War Media, memory, and the First World War David Williams Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams sh… OL14990331W
Postcolonial nostalgias Postcolonial nostalgias Dennis Walder "This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition -- nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well … OL15616438W
Modernism and style Modernism and style Ben Hutchinson "Tracing the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s, this bo… OL16318020W
The literature of the Great War reconsidered The literature of the Great War reconsidered Steven Trout,Patrick J. Quinn xiv, 245 p. ; 23 cm OL16979218W
Paradoxical citizenship Paradoxical citizenship Edward W. Said,Silvia Nagy-Zekmi Preface: Ultimate Coherence xi Introduction: The Word, the Text and Said … OL19400211W
Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism Yoshinobu Hakutani "This collection of eleven essays with an introduction examines postmodernity, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in cross-culturalism. In the west, modernity, which flourished in the earl… OL19549557W
Contemporary Authors Contemporary Authors Adam Augustyn Contemporary Authors: 1945 to the Present reflects the expansiveness of contemporary literature by providing in-depth and authoritative biographical, contextual, bibliographical, and other critical i… OL19677212W
The Holocaust and the postmodern The Holocaust and the postmodern Robert Eaglestone Reading and the holocaust: 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books' : identification and the genre of testimony ; Traces of experience : the texts of testimony ; 'Faithful and doubtful,… OL19855721W
Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Victoria Aarons,Alan L. Berger Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voic… OL20216805W
Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction Ben Davies xviii, 178 pages ; 22 am OL20698965W
Twentieth century pleasures Twentieth century pleasures Robert Hass A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry. OL2200464W
What Is There to Say? What Is There to Say? Ann Smock "Herman Melville's Bartleby, asked to a account for himself, "would prefer not to." Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his innocence, responds with a murderous blow. The Bavard, by Louis-Rene de… OL5100421W
From gay to queer From gay to queer Lasse Kekki This study explores the works of two contemporary American gay authors, David Leavitt and Tony Kushner by bringing both writers within the purview of Queer Studies. The book provides an extensive cri… OL6047335W
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature Santanu Das "Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside close investigative readings of literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain,… OL6546756W
Mail-Orders Mail-Orders Sunka Simon "While the advent and structure of electronic mail has been discussed in web caucuses, newspapers, hypertext theory, and communication theory, it has not yet been considered in conjunction with epist… OL8358635W