Twentieth-Century Literature – all Bücher, CDs und DVDs

Rare Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Organ Pieces

Andrea Toschi (Vittino / Vegezzi-Bossi-Orgel Chiesa parrocchiale di San Giovanni Battista Centallo)

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Beyond Modernism

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?Seeking an alternative history of British litera…

available from 20.8.2026.

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Maïa Hruska,
Kafkaesque

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translate…

available from 12.5.2026.

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Aaron Botwick
The Dead Cannot Reply

An intellectual and literary history of the professionalization of suicidology at the turn of the 20th century which shows that fiction played a significant role in the transformation of the debates on vo…

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Richard Sperber
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Richard Sperber,
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Kathryn Ferry
Twentieth-Century Seaside Architecture

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium.

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Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe

Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes, and how has this changed over time? This bo…

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Cathy McAteer,
Cold War Women

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and So…

available from 28.5.2026.

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Dániel Molnár
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest

This Element discusses Budapest from the 1920s until 1968. The field of entertainment began to be considered a cultural product that had to adhere to new political requirements. By 1968, the revue's cultu…

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Claudia Cerulo
Auditory Perception in Twentieth-Century Self-Narratives

Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century autobiographical literature, drawing a parallel between poststructuralism and the decente…

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-rangin…

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Dániel Molnár
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest

This Element discusses Budapest from the 1920s until 1968. The field of entertainment began to be considered a cultural product that had to adhere to new political requirements. By 1968, the revue's cultu…

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A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

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James Welker
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

"Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who chal…

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Hallie Franks,
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 2…

available from 20.8.2026.

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Earl E Fitz
Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E. Fitz's magisterial survey of the field, The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Ce…

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Lorraine Grimes
Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain

An original study of unmarried motherhood in Britain and Ireland from 1926-1973.

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Talbot C Imlay
Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

In this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World Wa…

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Transnational Working-Class Literatures

"This is a monumental collection with groundbreaking implications for the study of working-class literature, which has too often been viewed solely from within a limited national perspective. In its …

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