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.
Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf: The Being of Art and the Art of Being
1st Edition
By Adam Noland
December 18, 2020
This volume analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through a philosophical lens, providing an interpretive overview of her works through Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic ontology. The text argues that interpretation itself is the central subject matter of Woolf’s novels: in order to understand these ...
Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century
1st Edition
By Amanda Jones
September 30, 2020
The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the ...
Collage and Literature: The Persistence of Vision
1st Edition
By Scarlett Higgins
September 30, 2020
Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism. Starting from Pablo Picasso’s 1912 gesture, breaking the ...
Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe
1st Edition
By Chunjie Zhang
September 30, 2020
Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This book emphasizes modernist connections within literature, culture, history, and media beyond the nation state and the bifurcation between East and West. ...
Lorca’s Legacy: Essays in Interpretation
1st Edition
By Jonathan Mayhew
September 30, 2020
In Lorca’s Legacy, Jonathan Mayhew explores multiple aspects of the creative and critical afterlife of Federico García Lorca, the most internationally recognized Spanish poet and playwright of the twentieth century. Lorca is an iconic and charismatic figure who has evoked the admiration and ...
The Stability of Laughter: The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature
1st Edition
By James Nikopoulos
September 30, 2020
A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? ...
Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Heart Mysteries
1st Edition
By Daniel Tompsett
September 30, 2020
Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical...
Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism
1st Edition
By Katherine O'Callaghan
August 14, 2020
This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music ...
Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present
1st Edition
By Harry Redner
August 14, 2020
Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based their works on one or other of the two key myths of ...
The Early Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
1st Edition
By Willard Bohn
March 04, 2020
This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movements that shaped our response to the demands of the modern age and contributed to the creation of a modern sensibility: Cubism, Futurism, the ...
British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire
1st Edition
By Sam Goodman
December 10, 2019
The position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicative of the defence of British interests and the preservation of British power around the globe. This book reveals a more complicated side to these ...
Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation
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By Silvia G. Dapía
December 10, 2019
Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts...