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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
20TH-CENTURY
/
CONTEMPORARY
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
General
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Postscript on the Current).
Blamires, Harry. Twentieth-Century English Literature. 2nd ed. (The
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_____. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English. London:
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Caramés Lage, José Luis, and Natalia Menéndez Rodríguez.
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2005-05-05
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MacKean, Ian, ed. The Essentials of Literature in English, post1914. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Gopman, V. 20th Century English Literature: A Soviet View.
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Miscellaneous
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Day, Gary. "Literature and the Institutional Context in Britain." In
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Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man's Land: The Place of
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_____. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the
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_____. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th
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Okigbo, poetry).
Greenblatt, Stephen, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English
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ed: Vol. A: Middle Ages. Vol B: The 16th and Early 17th
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Gupta, Suman, and David Johnson. (both Open U), eds. A Twentieth
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_____. The Romantics to the Present Day. Vol. 4 of A Critical
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