Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature: From the Editors of World Literature Today

by Pamela A. Genova (Editor)

The Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature is a reference anthology of literary criticism on world literature, with a focus on the last quarter century. Twayne Publishers has collaborated with the second oldest literary journal in the United States, World Literature Today . This title provides a synthesis of some of the worlds best writers and is of relevance to researchers in fields beyond literature, including politics, society, culture, gender studies, religion, and current events. Essay titles by major writers Octavio Pazs The Liberal Tradition ; Elie Wiesels A Vision of the Apocalypse|; Maria Vargas Llosas |Social Commitment and the Latin American Writer|; and J. Hillis Millers |World Literature in the Age of Telecommunications.| The latest trends are conveyed in critical essays which |Erotic Sexuality in Recent Russian Literature|; |A Hundred Years of Arab Womens Writings|; |Slavery and the African Imagination|; |Avant-Garde Poetry in China|; |The Literary Response to the Iranian Revolution|; |Milan Dialogues with Fiction|; and |Nadine Nobel Laureate in Literature.||PIM|31-MAY-18|01

1600 pages, Hardcover

First published April 18, 2003