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.
The Frankfurt School and Poetics
1st Edition
By Lukas Hoffman, George Kovalenko
December 21, 2026
The Frankfurt School and Poetics is a study of the poetic dimensions of Critical Theory. By drawing this dimension out from under the long shadow of Theodor Adorno’s verdict that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, this collection of essays shows how deeply poetics, understood as both the ...
Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First Century Poetry: Writing Out
1st Edition
Edited
By Amina Alyal, Oz Hardwick
November 11, 2026
Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First-Century Poetry brings together poets and academics from around the world exploring the evolving practice of ekphrasis in the twenty-first century. With discussion of diverse media, the authors explore ways in which contemporary ekphrasis has evolved, embracing ...
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era: Navigating Identity and Modernity
1st Edition
By Mao Nie
October 16, 2026
An Analysis of Chinese Literature in the New Era serves as an essential window for international audiences to understand the rapid development of China over more than three decades and offers a critical interpretation of Chinese literature during this time. Due to the multifaceted influences of ...
Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet M. Wilson, Tracy Miao
October 16, 2026
Katherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been relatively neglected, even though Germany held Mansfield in its thrall all her life, as myriad associations ...
Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Laura Lorhan
October 16, 2026
Puzzling Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literature identifies a sustained interest in puzzles, such as the jigsaw and Fifteen Puzzle, dating back to the 1880s in the United States, and argues that puzzles appealed to modernist authors because they offer a framework for acknowledging the grim ...
Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk: A Modernist Bildung at Work
1st Edition
By Petru Golban
October 16, 2026
Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history (of a nation and the city) mutually shape identities as formative processes, James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk create “portraits” adapting bildung to chart the becoming of the protagonist ...
Valencian Folktales, Volume 3: Enric Valor
1st Edition
By Paul Scott Derrick, Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
October 16, 2026
Enric Valor (1911–2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This third selection of his highly popular rondalles (folktales) will complete the publication of his folktales in English translation. At a time when Catalan was under threat from the cultural bulldozer of ...
Exploring Crime Fiction: Georges Simenon’s Normandy Coast Mysteries
1st Edition
By Bill Alder
September 25, 2026
Georges Simenon’s commissaire Maigret is often associated with Paris, yet nearly one-third of the 103 Maigret novels and short stories take place outside the capital. Among these, the Normandy coast emerges as a recurring setting, featured not only in several Maigret narratives but also in Simenon’...
Reading Anaïs Nin: Laboratory of the Soul and Body
1st Edition
By Yuko Yaguchi
September 20, 2026
This volume aims to reread, reevaluate, and recreate Anaïs Nin as a writer. In so doing, it draws on the wealth of Japanese critique of Nin, notable for its distinctive tendency to approach both her life and work with a non-judgmental attitude. The study focuses on Nin in the 1930s when she lived ...
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles: Impossible Relationships
1st Edition
By Mahitosh Mandal
August 30, 2026
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles offers the first systematic Lacanian study of the fiction of John Fowles. Although Fowles repeatedly acknowledged his engagement with psychoanalysis, his novels have rarely been examined in relation to Jacques Lacan’s theorisation of sexual ...
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures: Weaving Sounds into Words
1st Edition
By Shirah Malka Cohen
August 26, 2026
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures. As this book shows, both Japanese and Hebrew writers of the period made use of Western classical music in their novels and short stories in order to explore ...
Indeterminacy and the Reader’s Engagement in the Italian Novel: Ungraspable
1st Edition
By Laura Lucia Rossi
August 18, 2026
What makes literature ‘literary’? Some theories argue it is a certain degree of ungraspability – openness, vagueness, or ambiguity that invites readers’ active participation in constructing meaning. This book examines five canonical twentieth-century Italian novels (by Tozzi, Landolfi, Vittorini, ...