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.
Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity
1st Edition
By Birgit Breidenbach
December 13, 2021
This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in the nexus between discourses on modernity, ...
Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
December 13, 2021
This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring ...
Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family
1st Edition
Edited
By Miranda Corcoran, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
December 13, 2021
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the ...
Poetry as Testimony: Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems
1st Edition
By Antony Rowland
December 13, 2021
This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the ...
Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening
1st Edition
By Justin St. Clair
December 13, 2021
This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears ...
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage
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By Andrés Pérez-Simón
September 30, 2021
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry,...
Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
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By Tim DeJong
September 30, 2021
"Hope" and "modernism" are two words that are not commonly linked. Moving from much-discussed negative affects to positive forms of feeling, Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature argues that they should be. This book contends that much of modernist writing and thought reveals a deeply ...
Black USA and Spain: Shared Memories in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego
June 30, 2021
During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's ...
Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language: Faith with the Word
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By James Dowthwaite
June 30, 2021
Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central to our conception of modernism’s ...
French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK
1st Edition
Edited
By Irving Goh
June 30, 2021
This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on...
Gombrowicz in Transnational Context: Translation, Affect, and Politics
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Edited
By Silvia Dapia
June 30, 2021
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four years as an émigré in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and finally Vence, France. His works have always been of interest to those studying Polish or Argentinean...
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism
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By June Hee Chung
June 30, 2021
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The book contextualizes James’s writing within a ...