Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

Luke Thurston

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo... Lees meer

AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

Monica B Pearl

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature | nr. 29
• This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis ... Lees meer

Locating Gender in Modernism

Geetha Ramanathan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and r... Lees meer

Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood

Birgit Breidenbach

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung s... Lees meer

Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

Michel Delville

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• From Plato's dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant's relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sens... Lees meer

Ulysses and Faust

Harry Redner

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante... Lees meer

Literature for a Society of Equals

Daniel S Malachuk

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality's supposed friends on the left of attenu... Lees meer

Poetry as Testimony

Antony Rowland

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry ... Lees meer

Joyce as Theory

Gabriel Renggli

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• 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... Lees meer

The Nationality of Utopia

Maxim Shadurski

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the t... Lees meer

Diary Poetics

Anna Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature | nr. 12
• The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer's thoughts, and as offering unmediated acce... Lees meer

Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• In Salman Rushdie's novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over... Lees meer

Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

Alice McLean

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature | nr. 18
• This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabe... Lees meer

Modernism and Latin America

Patricia Novillo-Corvalán

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Draw... Lees meer

Global Cold War Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature | nr. 22
• In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatu... Lees meer

Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Daniel Tompsett

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• 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 ... Lees meer

Writing for the Masses

Christine Colón

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the ... Lees meer

French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars work... Lees meer

Anglophone Jewish Literature

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• English has become the major language of contemporary Jewish literature. This book shows the transnational character of that literature and how tradit... Lees meer

Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf

Adam Noland

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This volume analyses Virginia Woolf's novels through a philosophical lens, providing an interpretive overview of her works through Hans-Georg Gadamer'... Lees meer

The British Stake In Japanese Modernity

Michael Gardiner

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising , but also as a Britishing , and secondly modernist attem... Lees meer

Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

Lindsey Michael Banco

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature | nr. 11
• This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central y... Lees meer

The British Stake In Japanese Modernity

Michael Gardiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising , but also as a Britishing , and secondly modernist attem... Lees meer

Modern Confessional Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mi... Lees meer