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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature


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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.

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Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 Viewer, I Married Him

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him

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By Jamie Barlowe
August 08, 2024

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton....

An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet

An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet

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By Adrian van den Hoven
August 01, 2024

An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre’s plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005. Viewing the plays in the context of Sartre’s philosophy, his prose writings and ...

George Orwell and Communist Poland Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions

George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions

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By Krystyna Wieszczek
July 31, 2024

George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during WWII and the cold war. Offering a tri-partite approach to studying reception in conditions of state-imposed censorship – from émigré, official and clandestine perspectives – the volume reveals ...

Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives Hunger in Eden

Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden

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Edited By Jonas Elbousty, Roger Allen
July 15, 2024

Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature. Known primarily for his groundbreaking autobiographical work "al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī" (For Bread Alone), Choukri's literary...

Industrial Literature and Authors Labor, Factory Utopias and Testimonial Intent

Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias and Testimonial Intent

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By Bianca Rita Cataldi
July 12, 2024

In recent years, the field of literary studies at international level has become more and more involved in the analysis of the so-called industrial literature, a literary genre which focuses on the literary representation of factory work and workers’ alienation. This book engages in the on-going ...

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing

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By Luke Thurston
July 01, 2024

What is at stake in Freud’s enduring preoccupation with a process supposedly diverting sexuality into cultural activity? In this study, a leading scholar of psychoanalysis and literature re-opens the old question of sublimation in a critical reading that explores one of the last remaining puzzles ...

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction Narratology and Detective Criticism

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism

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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

Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead

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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

Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works

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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

Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction: Living in Translation

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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

On the Avenue of the Mystery: The Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film

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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

The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun: The Flower Dream of a Woman Born Too Soon

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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 ...

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