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.
Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age
1st Edition
By Christian Wilken
March 09, 2025
In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction. This study examines the convergence of three critical phenomena: the widespread recognition of the ...
Polish Camp Literature
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
March 06, 2025
Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly. This restricted outlook has been determined by politics, ideology, the scarcity of historical knowledge, the lack of literary research, and frequent manipulation concerning terms ...
Warrior-Writers of World War II
1st Edition
By Lee Congdon
February 28, 2025
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. It considers the works of 16 important authors, among them J. D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences...
Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women
1st Edition
By Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
December 18, 2024
Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrienne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on ...
Literature for a Society of Equals
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Malachuk
December 18, 2024
Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing ...
Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery
1st Edition
By Bradley D. Clissold
December 18, 2024
Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates ...
Strategies of Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Matthias Bauer, Angelika Zirker
December 18, 2024
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume ...
Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction
1st Edition
By Ursula Kluwick
October 14, 2024
Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.In ...
Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hammond
October 14, 2024
In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts...
How We Experience Modern Verse
1st Edition
By Eric Purchase
October 09, 2024
Poetry moves us. Sometimes a poem changes our life. Then we analyze it as a cultural artifact with no special connection to us. An extensive critical apparatus enables us to develop sophisticated interpretations, but we dismiss as "idiosyncratic" even life-changing experiences of poetry. We need an...
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...