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Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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...
To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships...
To Be Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Companions
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very...
To Be Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and...
To Be Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic poetic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts found in the works of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Xenophanes. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the...
To Be Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between...
To Be Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of ‘the modern movement’, a friend and helper...
To Be Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American...
To Be Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1990, this work offers an analysis of the phenomenon of encyclopaedism in literature. Hilary Clark develops the theory of an encyclopaedic form in the interests of making clear distinctions between the realist narrative form and that of the encyclopaedic-parodic or fictional...
To Be Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
