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1. Gender and Modernism: Critical Concepts 4 vols

   Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Bonnie Kime Scott

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Modernism, whether seen as a period designation, a manifestation of formal experimentation, or an aspect of modernity, has since its inception been marked, consciously or unconsciously, by gender. The dates 1890-1940, typically accepted as encompassing the modernist period, coincide with the first...

   Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
2. Modern Drama

   Edited by Martin Puchner

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   What is generally referred to as modern drama was an international development or movement centred in Europe and North America, a movement directed against many of the conventions and institutions of nineteenth-century drama and theatre. Between 1880 and 1960, a number of foundational figures broke...

   Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge
3. Medieval Drama

   By John C. Coldewey

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Medieval drama, always a popular area of study, has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. This new Routledge Major Work now makes available for the first time both the canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field. Organized generically, geographically and chronologically, the...

   Published July 30th 2007 by Routledge
4. Myth

   By Robert Segal

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Myth is truly boundlessly interdisciplinary. There is no field of myth studies itself. Rather, many disciplines have contributed theories of myth. In addition to theories from anthropology and sociology, theories of myth have come mainly from psychology, folklore, philosophy, religious studies, and...

   Published April 26th 2007 by Routledge
5. Autobiography

   Edited by Trev Lynn Broughton

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century. That it has achieved both academic respectability and critical cachet over the last twenty-five years is the result of a number of trends. Politically 'progressive'...

   Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge
6. Twentieth-Century American Drama

   Edited by Brenda Murphy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   There was a vast array of activity in American theatre during the twentieth century, when work produced in the United States reached the height of its significance and influence within the world repertoire. Presenting an overview of criticism on the full range of twentieth-century American drama...

   Published August 14th 2006 by Routledge
7. Structuralism

   Edited by Jonathan Culler

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Structuralism is a broad intellectual movement in the humanities and social sciences that came to prominence in the 1960s. Representing the beginning of modern interdisciplinary work in what has come to be called "theory", it seeks not to explain the meaning of an object or event but to understand...

   Published June 22nd 2006 by Routledge
8. Children's Literature

   Edited by Peter Hunt

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   The study of children’s literature is currently centred on literary studies, educational studies, and a third more diverse group of many other related disciplines, including history, bibliography, sociology and psychology. All of these then overlap with cultural studies and contribute to the...

   Published June 4th 2006 by Routledge
9. Romanticism

   Edited by Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Romanticism is, and always has been, one of the most hotly contested terms in literary and cultural history. Many of the writers now described as Romantic refused to be defined by the word: 'it would be such bad taste', said Byron in 1820. Lovejoy spoke of a plurality of ‘romanticisms’,...

   Published September 13th 2005 by Routledge
10. Folklore

    Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Alan Dundes

    Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. It is very much tied to nationalism and national identity and for this reason it has often been the smaller countries that have led the way in terms of providing theory and method...

    Published October 27th 2004 by Routledge