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.
Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living in Translation
1st Edition
By Ludmilla Voitkovska
May 27, 2024
Joseph Conrad is famous for being an unusual, strange, and even eccentric English writer. However, despite his difference, English criticism has primarily interpreted his fiction from the perspective of the English culture. In turn, Polish criticism has portrayed Conrad as a Pole who happened to ...
On the Avenue of the Mystery: The Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film
1st Edition
By Gary Hentzi
May 27, 2024
This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the millennium (1985–2012). The comparison of these novels (by Ken Kesey, Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers, ...
The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun: The Flower Dream of a Woman Born Too Soon
1st Edition
By Jung Ja Choi
May 27, 2024
The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun offers an introduction to Korea’s first modern woman writer to publish a collection of creative works, Kim Myŏng-sun (1896–ca. 1954). Despite attempts by male contemporaries to assassinate her character, Kim was an outspoken writer and an early ...
Valencian Folktales: Enric Valor
1st Edition
By Paul Scott Derrick, Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
May 27, 2024
Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular rondalles (folk tales) will for the first time introduce his work to an English-speaking audience. At a time when Catalan was under threat from the cultural bulldozer of the Franco ...
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
1st Edition
By John Carlos Rowe
January 29, 2024
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James’s works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James’s fiction is generally considered difficult and part of high culture, more appropriate for ...
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History
1st Edition
By Lynne W. Hinojosa
January 29, 2024
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history—meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time—and develop a more robust conception of and ...
Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Mette Leonard Høeg
January 29, 2024
Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts. This book explores the essential literary notion and its role, function and effect in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and...
Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber, Władysław Witalisz
September 25, 2023
Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the short story genre through her nomadic existence, colonial perspective, eclectic interests and impressive range of literary acquaintances. This volume ...
Polish Literature and Genocide
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
September 25, 2023
Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the ...
T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems: Making Sense of the Times
1st Edition
By Anna Budziak
May 31, 2023
T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet "in writing himself, writes his time". In saying that, he honoured Dante and Shakespeare, but this pithy remark fittingly characterises his own work, including The Ariel Poems, with which he promptly and pointedly responded to the problems of his times....
Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political
1st Edition
By Eli Park Sorensen
January 09, 2023
As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or ...
William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound
1st Edition
By Ahmed Honeini
January 09, 2023
William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of ‘saying No to death’. Through close-readings ...