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.
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, ...
Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction
1st Edition
By Ursula Kluwick
October 14, 2024
Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.In ...
Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hammond
October 14, 2024
In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts...
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 ...
Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism
1st Edition
By Alistair Rolls
May 27, 2024
This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard’s self-styled ‘...
Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead
1st Edition
By Philipp Schweighauser
May 27, 2024
Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultural others ...
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works
1st Edition
By Tania Chakravertty
May 27, 2024
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that have always been present in Hemingway’s work, utilising a variety of historical, socio-cultural and biographical contexts. Offering a close analysis of the gender issues and sexual ...