Bücher der Reihe Literature in Context

Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from her formative upbringing in New England and Nova Scotia to long residences in New York, France, Florida and Brazil. Her poetry, prose, letters, translations and visual art are analysed in turn, followed by detailed studies of literary movements such as surrealism and modernism that influenced her artistic development. Bishop's encounters with nature, music, psychoanalysis and religion receive extended treatment, likewise her interest in dreams and humour. Essays also investigate the impact of twentieth-century history and politics on Bishop's life writing, and what it means to read Bishop via eco-criticism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.

Tolstoy's life and thought engaged a vast array of national and international contexts: historical, religious, scientific, philosophical, socio-political, and artistic. This volume introduces those contexts and situates Tolstoy-the man and the writer-in the rich and tumultuous period in which his thought and creative output came to fruition.

Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its contexts. Essays examine how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding his body of work.

This book guides the reader through the intersecting fields of biography, literary culture and reception, and the intellectual and cultural movements informing the history and politics of the Romantic period and in turn the life and works of Lord Byron (1788-1824).

This book provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison's life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the major topics of his time. It will be a key resource to scholars, students and teachers interested in Ralph Ellison.

Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. This book gathers thirty-three new essays by an international group of scholars relating Wright's multi-faceted writings to contexts essential to understanding them: biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century, along with his continued impact on theater around the world. It also examines Brecht's contributions to revolutionary thought and to poetry and his response to twentieth-century German history.

Situating Elizabeth Bishop's writing within a range of biographical, historical, literary and philosophical contexts, including the reception of her work and its continuing influence on contemporary poetry, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century American, Canadian and Pan American literature.

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the most important modern playwrights. More than thirty essays on topics ranging from science to screenwriting help illuminate Stoppard's rich body of work.

This volume supports Chaucer's modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, philosophical, economic, psychological, linguistic and scientific - through which to read, interpret and enjoy his works with greater confidence and independence.

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers how his works have been received abroad. The collection offers a rich interdisciplinary understanding, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, music, and visual arts.

Brings together for the first time in one volume today's leading scholars of this major theatre tradition. The book provides a state-of-the-art survey of current thinking on the commedia and discusses both the early modern period and the reinvention of the commedia dell'arte in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov's work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for established scholars wanting to keep up with the new approaches and methodologies in Nabokov studies which this collection showcases.

This book guides the reader through the intersecting fields of biography, literary culture and reception, and the intellectual and cultural movements informing the history and politics of the Romantic period and in turn the life and works of Lord Byron (1788-1824).

This book guides readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. It will be of interest to students, graduates and instructors studying and teaching Thomas Pynchon.

This volume is for newcomers to Baldwin's work as well as those who are familiar with that work and with established ways to approach it. The language and perspectives of the two dozen authors contained herein are diverse, and yet all of the essays are accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

The book reveals the wide range of personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped Sylvia Plath's work. The primary readers envisioned are students, scholars, and instructors of Plath and twentieth century poetry more generally.

This collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), set within social, political, cultural and literary contexts.

This volume supports Chaucer's modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, philosophical, economic, psychological, linguistic and scientific - through which to read, interpret and enjoy his works with greater confidence and independence.

Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career, Samuel Richardson has been variously understood as ground-breaking novelist, prolific correspondent and moral crusader. This new volume of essays offers a comprehensive account of his life and works in their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

This innovative book places Kafka's work in its many varied contexts. Accessible essays by leading Kafka scholars discuss his texts from new and often unexpected angles. They include his relation to Czech literature, modern culture, the role of Prague in the First World War, and friendship, illness and sexuality.

Covering a range of topics - biographical, social, literary, and intellectual - and addressing both the sources of his work and how he influenced later writers, this exploration of the world of John Keats (1795-1821) enriches our understanding of one of Britain's greatest poets and letter writers.

Setting George Bernard Shaw's life and work in the dynamic times in which he lived, this collection of forty-two essays on a wide range of themes provides new directions for future research. Contributors reveal the subjects that defined Shaw's life and work, from theatre and music to politics and philosophy.

Setting George Bernard Shaw's life and work in the dynamic times in which he lived, this collection of forty-two essays on a wide range of themes provides new directions for future research. Contributors reveal the subjects that defined Shaw's life and work, from theatre and music to politics and philosophy.

Brings together for the first time in one volume today's leading scholars of this major theatre tradition. The book provides a state-of-the-art survey of current thinking on the commedia and discusses both the early modern period and the reinvention of the commedia dell'arte in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Designed for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.

Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov's work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for established scholars wanting to keep up with the new approaches and methodologies in Nabokov studies which this collection showcases.

This innovative book places Kafka's work in its many varied contexts. Accessible essays by leading Kafka scholars discuss his texts from new and often unexpected angles. They include his relation to Czech literature, modern culture, the role of Prague in the First World War, and friendship, illness and sexuality.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars provides a comprehensive account of the context of Dante's life and work. It will not only answer questions, but also inspire new research into the connections between material culture, intellectual traditions, and literary and artistic expression.

William Wordsworth in Context offers thirty-five concise and readable chapters on the essential contexts for understanding all aspects of the leading English Romantic poet. It discusses Wordsworth's life, family and friendships, his critical reception, and key aspects of the cultural, historical, political, and scientific contexts in which he wrote.