New Literatures in English

Review of "The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature" edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls

Daalder, Joost (Taylor & Francis, 2007-03-27)

From the outset it should be said that this book contains a great many well-written, expert and thoroughly researched papers produced by a large number of scholars who obviously know what they are talking about. If I ...
Review of "Self-fashioning and Metamorphosis in Early Modern English Literature" edited by Olav Lausund and Stein Haugom Olsen

Daalder, Joost (Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-23)

This is a satisfying collection of essays derived from a conference hosted by the English Department of the University of Oslo: interesting, original, sensible, and based on sound scholarship. [...] The themes of the book ...
National, international, and comparative literary approaches: what are we about?

Daalder, Joost (Council on National Literatures, 1979-10)

We must distinguish very clearly between national, international, and comparative approaches. [...] My own greatest hope is for 'international' as distinct from 'comparative' literature: an approach which sees the literary ...
Studying 'New Literatures in English'

Daalder, Joost (New Literature Review, Australian National University, 1979)

A discussion of what constitutes new literature in English, arising from the description given in the opening paragraph, namely: all literary writing in English which does not emanate from Great Britain, Ireland or the ...