Twentieth Century Literature – alle Bücher online kaufen

Rachel Bryan
Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

"The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nuance to such accounts by exposing and exploring the reparative work…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

George Z. Gasyna
A Time for the Province

A Time for the Province explores the culturally and symbolically important region of the Polish borderlands through the idea of the palimpsest in modern Polish provincial literature.

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Tales That Touch

Cultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways. Instead of corralling them into identity categories, …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energetical…

lieferbar ab 17.6.2025.

Buch

Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious." -Louis…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Stephanie Oade
Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring around four musical works from the twentieth century. Stephanie Oade considers how and why …

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

"A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century"--

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Robert Schwartzwald, Sherry Simon,
Worldwise

Édouard Roditi (1910-1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life lived across continents and languages, and at flashpoints of history. Worldwise brings tog…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Katharina Herold-Zanker
Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920

This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that repr…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Michael Docherty
The Recursive Frontier

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Sarah Gleeson-White
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion discovers the considerable impact of motion pictures on literary culture across the early decades of the twentieth century by …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man

In this classic of twentieth-century literature, now with a strikingly beautiful new cover design, Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning from the depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achi…

lieferbar ab 17.6.2025.

Buch

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca
Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and Ge…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

George Orwell
Animal Farm

The Penguin English Library

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Now a major HBO series. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his wor…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Ali Smith, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Helen Oyeyemi
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his wor…

lieferbar ab 1.5.2025.

Buch

Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of …

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Meindert Peters
Habituation in German Modernism

Investigates the relationship of early twentieth-century German literature and thought with contemporary cognitive studies and posits a new theory of modernism.

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Helen Smith
The Uncommon Reader

The absorbing portrait Edward Garnett, an editor, critic and publisher's reader, who shaped the literary landscape as we know it. Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett would become one …

Erscheint bald

Buch

Per Esben Svelstad
Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908-1979

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as p…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Trefferliste "Twentieth Century Literature" - alle Bücher