'Troubling Legacies; analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer Knut Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasizes the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction …
Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake -- Babels' two Aphrodites : autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg myth / Gregory Freidin -- Babel in the context of Russian history. The Reds and the Jews, or the comrad…
For David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history- history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconc…
"This book engages the notions of place and displacement as heuristic devices for literary analysis of Borges's and Cortazar's narratives. It maps out these authors' visions of place and displacement in some of their most famous texts; locates the 'place' of Borges's texts withi…
The Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) was a very significant and often controversial figure on the literary stages of Paris, London and Dublin at a key cultural moment. Between 1880 and 1931, his creative involvements included spells with literary theatres in London and Dubl…