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.
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 ...
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 ...