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Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. The New Hemingway Studies outlines Hemingway's continued relevance for the twenty-first century scholars and readers, highlights the latest critical trends, and indicates the paths yet to be taken.

This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.

This volume collects and assesses all of the major new trends in Melville studies, testing them out in new readings and putting them into conversation with one another. It offers students and faculty alike a fresh view of Herman Melville, presenting him as a philosopher of the mind and the emotions.

This book is aimed at both established scholars and graduate students. Informed by twenty-first-century theoretical, political, and analytical developments, it provides established scholars with a useful overview of new directions in Pynchon scholarship. For students, it brings together essays that cover a broad range of topics and new approaches.

Combining new approaches and methods of interpretation to an expanding canon that has brought us new letters, drafts and notebooks, this collection aims to present the most accurate and varied map of new Beckett studies.

This book is for students and scholars of American literature. Asking how Whitman can be relevant in the era of electronic communication and global political upheaval, it features essays from a variety of literary and historical approaches. It includes revelatory new work from both established and emerging Whitman scholars.

This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporary writing plays in representing and influencing rapidly changing conditions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.

English literature, English literature - 1900 - 1945, English literature - 1945 and beyond

This book introduce fresh critical voices and promising topics to the study of the twentieth-century American poet Wallace Stevens. It explores important concepts that are emerging in Stevens criticism, applies recent methods and theories, and reassesses long-debated issues.

"While, from the outside, Joyce studies might appear monolithic, from within, it is manifold, divergent, and lively. The sixteen essays in this volume indicate an expanded and interconnected conversation that brings into relation hitherto distant locales and types of criticism. Taking European, African, Latin American, trans-continental and global perspectives, these essays work within and between a range of critical approaches and vantage points. Many of them engage in new ways with the discussions of Irish history and politics begun by in the mid-nineties by scholars such as Emer Nolan, Vincent J. Cheng, Marjorie Howes, and Derek Attridge. These historical and political concerns have continued to bear fruit in recent years, as evidenced by works by Cheng, Luke Gibbons, and Andrew Gibson. Several of the essays in this volume bring these concerns into relation with issues such as queerness, race, and transnational literary relations. Others examine issues of composition and publication, copyright law, translation, and the history of modernist criticism"--

This volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, gender studies, and the energy humanities. The essays are written with the Faulkner expert and general reader in mind, and covers the full range of Faulkner's opus.