The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established Alan Sinfield as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar...
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the white elephant role of the writer as public...
Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Irish Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of...
A walker, a reader and a gazer, Sharifa Rhodes Pitts is also a skilled talker whose impromptu kerbside exchanges with Harlems most colourful residents are transmuted into a slippery, silky...
From the late 1940s through the JFK years, America was the home office of literary innovation. Writers forged new styles with the rapidly changing times, and generated new ideas that...
Everywhere people share certain moral principles - it is bad to steal, to kill, to lie. We see our morality as absolute, yet we live by rules that differ with...
