Twentieth Century Literature Reader

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This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers & critics the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose value & form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts & by the provocative critical ideas & arguments that surrounded them this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard Mansfield's Short Stories poetry of the 1930s Gibbon's Sunset Song Eliot's Prufrock Brecht's Galileo Woolf's Orlando Okigbo's Selected Poems du Maurier's Rebecca poetry by Ginsburg & O' Hara Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman Beckett's Waiting for Godot Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987 Gurnah's Paradise & Barker's The Ghost Road.