{"product_id":"9780415351706","title":"A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis critical \u003cem\u003eReader\u003c\/em\u003e is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea literary-historical overview of the twentieth century \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einsight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecloser examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of \u003cem\u003eDebating Twentieth-Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century.\u003cbr\u003eTexts examined in detail include: Chekhov's \u003cem\u003eThe Cherry Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, Mansfield's \u003cem\u003eShort Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's \u003cem\u003eSunset Song\u003c\/em\u003e, Eliot's \u003cem\u003ePrufrock\u003c\/em\u003e, Brecht's \u003cem\u003eGalileo\u003c\/em\u003e, Woolf's \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e, Okigbo's \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, du Maurier's \u003cem\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's \u003cem\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u003c\/em\u003e, Puig's \u003cem\u003eKiss of the Spiderwoman\u003c\/em\u003e, Beckett's \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/em\u003e, Heaney's \u003cem\u003eNew Selected Poems 1966-1987\u003c\/em\u003e, Gurnah's \u003cem\u003eParadise\u003c\/em\u003e and Barker's \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Road.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46256301048049,"sku":"9780415351706","price":140.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780415351706_p0.jpg?v=1764998074","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780415351706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}