02242cam a2200181 a 4500020002500000020002200025040000800047082002000055100001800075245007100093246003700164260009000201300003400291500005300325505158800378650004701966650004702013 a9780340882689 (pbk.) a0340882689 (pbk.) cCUS04a820.9041bMAC/E1 aMackean, Ian.14aThe essentials of literature in English, post-1914 /cIan Mackean.3 aLiterature in English, post-1914 aLondon :bHodder Arnold :aNew York :bDistributed by Oxford University Press,c2005. axiv, 391 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. aPART 1: Major modern authors A-Z PART 2: Major themes in modern literature Critical studies of modern literature Modernism and popular literature The language of modern literature in English Feminist literature Rewriting canonical portrayals’ of women: Margaret Atwood’s ’Gertrude Talks Back’ Postcolonial feminist theory: an overview Modern drama A survey of British, Irish and American drama of the twentieth century Postcolonial literature An introduction to postcolonial literature Postmodern literature An introduction to postmodern literature PART 3: Regional Influences in modern literature American literature A survey of modern American poetry and fiction Modern American poetry - the influence of Elizabeth Bishop Australian literature ’Who am I when I am transported?’ Postcolonialism and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs British and Irish literature A survey of British fiction and poetry of the twentieth century The poetry of the First World War The Bloomsbury Group British writers of the 1930s The Liverpool Poets Canadian literature A survey of Canadian literature in Engiish of the twentieth century Caribbean literature Identity and Caribbean iiterature Indian literature in English Rabindranath Tagore’s English Gitanjalr. Defining Modernity in the East Modern indian women writers in English Irish literature The Irish Culturai Revivai, W. B. Yeats and postcoionialism: two perspectives South African literature A survey of modern South African literature PART 4: Reference materials Giossary of terms Literary awards, prizes and iaureateships Time chart 0aEnglish literaturexHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish literaturexHistory and criticism.