Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
About the Book Series
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery
1st Edition
By Bradley D. Clissold
December 18, 2024
Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book ...
Strategies of Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Matthias Bauer, Angelika Zirker
December 18, 2024
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume ...
Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Hanan Mousa
December 09, 2024
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian children’s literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture and the evolution of national identity and consciousness among young Palestinians....
The Hidden D. H. Lawrence: Unmasking a Lyrical Genius
1st Edition
By Myron Tuman
October 31, 2024
The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer’s lyrical genius. It explores how Lawrence, when writing on his favorite subject, the relations between men and women, moved so quickly between heavy-handed exposition and deeply inspired prose, ...
How We Experience Modern Verse
1st Edition
By Eric Purchase
October 09, 2024
Poetry moves us. Sometimes a poem changes our life. Then we analyze it as a cultural artifact with no special connection to us. An extensive critical apparatus enables us to develop sophisticated interpretations, but we dismiss as "idiosyncratic" even life-changing experiences of poetry. We need an...
Japanese-American Literature through the Prism of Acculturation
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska
October 08, 2024
The twentieth-century reality in the Unites States was harsh for Japanese immigrants who attempted to settle down and follow their dreams in the new land. Prejudice and discrimination against the newcomers, rife among Americans, were exacerbated by the ramifications of World War II events, ...
Joyce as Theory: Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and Finnegans Wake
1st Edition
By Gabriel Renggli
October 08, 2024
Joyce as Theory is the first book-length examination of James Joyce to argue he can be read as a theorist. Joyce is not just a favourite case study of literary theory; he wrote about how we make meaning, and to what effect. The present volume traces his hermeneutics in those narratives in Finnegans...
Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century: Painterly Poetics
1st Edition
By Declan Lloyd
August 26, 2024
This book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal writers who were strongly influenced by very different movements: they are Gertrude Stein and Cubism, William S. Burroughs ...
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him
1st Edition
By Jamie Barlowe
August 08, 2024
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903–1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton....
An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet
1st Edition
By Adrian van den Hoven
August 01, 2024
An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre’s plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005. Viewing the plays in the context of Sartre’s philosophy, his prose writings and ...
Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonas Elbousty, Roger Allen
July 15, 2024
Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature. Known primarily for his groundbreaking autobiographical work "al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī" (For Bread Alone), Choukri's literary...
Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent
1st Edition
By Bianca Rita Cataldi
July 12, 2024
In recent years, the field of literary studies at the international level has become more involved in the analysis of the so-called industrial literature, a literary genre that focuses on the literary representation of factory work and workers’ alienation. This book engages in the ongoing...