Literature Studies

The first book of its kind, Literary Drowning explores depictions of the drowned body in twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that reconsiders memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the making of the postcolonial subject and nation.

"Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."- Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

The book draws on unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. Focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author's canon.

Recent years have witnessed a series of shifts in the reception of Brian O'Nolan's work, with the publication of collected short stories and dramatic texts and a systematic critical reappraisal of once marginal titles in the author's canon.

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

This volume explores poetic dialogue and dialogic patterns in medieval vernacular Italian poetry. It focuses on representations of conversion narratives and poetic subjectivity in the writings of Guittone d'Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, and Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante.

In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing.

This first of two volumes of the letters and diaries of Benjamin Britten is supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and extensive contemporary documentation. The aim is to present a portrait not only of the composer but of an age.