Edited by Olaf Berwald, Kennesaw State University, USA, Stephen D. Dowden, Brandeis University, USA & Gregor Thuswaldner, Whitworth University, USA In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)—one of the 20th century’s most uniquely gifted writers—created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhard’s death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard’s singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard’s Austrian vision an international vision. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives tells that story. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 264 pages PB 9781501369261 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351518 ePub 9781501351525 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501351532 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir Jeffrey Berman, University of Albany, USA
Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it explores the challenges of reading and writing about caregiving while asking why caregiving is dangerous and yet so important. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 296 pages PB 9781350185364 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350166578 ePub 9781350166592 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350166585 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures Edited by Greg Barnhisel
Adopting a book historical approach to its subject, this book asks how the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. Broad in its geographical range, it looks at works of mainstream British and American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Bellow, as well as moving beyond the U.K. and U.S. to detail how writers and readers from Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary traditions and texts. UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 448 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350191716 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350191730 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350191723 • £117.00 / $153.74 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
International Poetry of the First World War An Anthology of Lost Voices
Edited by Constance M. Ruzich, Robert Morris University, USA Ranging beyond the traditional canon, this anthology casts new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together 140 poems by soldiers and noncombatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict, International Poetry of the First World War explores such topics as: Life on the Front; Psychological trauma; Noncombatants and the Home Front; Rationalising war; Remembering the dead; and Peace and the War's aftermath. With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 416 pages PB 9781350226067 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350106444 ePub 9781350106451 • £126.00 / $165.47 ePdf 9781350106468 • £126.00 / $165.47 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Transnational Jean Rhys
Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight Edited by Juliana Lopoukhine and Frédéric Regard, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France & Kerry-Jane Wallart, University of Orléans, France This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. It argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with her writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in a myriad of directions. Including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - German Studies / 20th-Century Literature
Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781501371653 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361296 ePub 9781501361302 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501361319 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle, Oregon State University, USA, Amanda Golden, New York Institute of Technology, USA & Maeve O'Brien, Ulster University, UK. With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars this is the most upto-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on the life and work of Sylvia Plath. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work, including such topics as: · New insights from the publication of Plath’s letters · Key critical perspectives: feminist and gender studies, race, medical humanities and ecocriticism · Plath’s poetry, fiction, broadcast work and writing for children · Plath’s literary contexts, from Ovid and Robert Lowell to Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing and Stevie Smith UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 432 pages HB 9781350119222 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350119239 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350119246 • £117.00 / $153.74 Bloomsbury Academic
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