A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader

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 and critics, the selected extracts provide: *a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century *insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and 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 and by the provocative critical ideas and 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 and 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 and Barker's The Ghost Road.