Literature

April Series of the Month: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature

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.

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Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

By Alice McLean

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

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 Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify...

Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature

Novel Listening

By Justin St. Clair

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears...

Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

By Paul Clements

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring...

Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
The Epic Trickster in American Literature

From Sunjata to So(u)l

By Gregory E. Rutledge

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...

Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss

By Monica Pearl

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

Eating the Avant-Garde

By Michel Delville

Series: 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 sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior...

Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge