TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackean,Ian
TI  - The essentials of literature in English, post-1914
SN  - 9780340882689 (pbk.)
U1  - 820.9041 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Hodder Arnold, Distributed by Oxford University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; PART 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
ER  -