Books in the Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series

Analyses Irene Nemirovsky's literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. This book examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, including the close relationship between politics and literature.

This collection presents a counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK, tracing the reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds from the late 70s to the present.

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential.

James Joyce's preoccupation with space - be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical - is a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. This title evaluates the perception and mental construction of space, as it is evoked through Joyce's writing. It includes essays addressing Joyce's major works.

James JoyceΓÇÖs preoccupation with spaceΓÇöbe it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or opticalΓÇöis a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come together to evaluate the perception and mental construction of space, as it is evoked through JoyceΓÇÖs writing. The aim is to bring together several recent trends of literary research and criticism to bear on the notion of space in its most concrete sense. The essays move dialectically out of an immediate focus on the phenomenological and intra-psychic, into broader and wider meditations on the social, urban and collective. As JoyceΓÇÖs formal experiments appear the response to the difficulty of enunciating truly the experience of lived space, this eventually leads us to textual and linguistic space. The final contribution evokes the space with which Joyce worked daily, that of his manuscriptsΓÇöor what he called "paperspace." With essays addressing all of Joyce''s major works, this volume is a critical contribution to our understanding of modernism, as well as of the relationship between space, language, and literature.

Analyzes the engagement with Hollywood by Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first decades of the 20th century.

While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This work argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.

Analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s onwards, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and national identities, and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. This title includes discussion of film, television and, popular music, as well as diverse literary texts.

Examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics - mobility and intoxication. This book explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s.

For many people, Levi is known as a survivor of the Holocaust and testimonial writer. Fewer people think of him as a science fiction writer who engages with issues such as virtual reality devices, the cloning of human beings, posthuman subjectivity and cyborg bodies. This book explores these issues.

Discusses how fictional travellers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. This title considers the ethical dimensions of modernist travel from two distinct vantages.

Drawing on the extraordinary wealth of scholarly and critical material on John Milton's life, works and influence, this collection of reprinted articles brings together the most illuminating scholarship that has been written about Milton.

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well.

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 them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked ¿ even if central ¿ dimension of the work of a major contemporary writer. This collection brings together, for the first time and into a coherent whole, research on the extensive interplay between the visible and the readable in Rushdie¿s fiction, from one of the earliest novels ¿ Midnight¿s Children (1981) ¿ to his latest ¿ The Enchantress of Florence (2008).

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, revolutions, propaganda wars and ideological debates of the era. While including essays on western European and North American literature, the volume views First World writing, not as central to the period, but as part of an international discussion of Cold War realities in which the most interesting contributions often came from marginal or subordinate cultures. To this end, there is an emphasis on the literatures of the Second and Third Worlds, including essays on Latin American poetry, Soviet travel writing, Chinese autobiography, African theatre, North Korean literature, Cuban and eastern European fiction, and Middle Eastern fiction and poetry.With the post-Cold War era still in a condition of emergence, it is essential that we look back to the 1945-89 period to understand the political and cultural forces that shaped the modern world. The volume¿s analysis of those forces and its focus on many of the `hot spots¿ ¿ Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea ¿ that define the contemporary `war on terror¿, make this an essential resources for those working in Postcolonial, American and English Literatures, as well as in History, Comparative Literature, European Studies and Cultural Studies. Global Cold War Literatures is a suitable companion volume to Hammond's Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, also available from Routledge.

This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a Hartford poet and kept gravitating toward New York for nearly all things that mattered to him privately and poetically: visits to galleries and museums, theatrical and musical performances, intellectual and artistic gatherings, shopping sprees and gastronomical indulgences. Recent criticism of the poet has sought to understand how Stevens interacted with the literary, artistic, and cultural forces of his time to forge his inimitable aesthetic, with its peculiar mix of post-romantic responses to nature and a metropolitan cosmopolitanism. This volume deepens our understanding of the multiple ways in which New York and its various aesthetic attractions figured in Stevens'' life, both at a biographical and poetic level.