20th Century Literature

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Largely, though not exclusively, as a legacy of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Islamic faith has become synonymous in many corners of the media and academia with violence, which many believe to be its primary mode of expression. Responding to the growing importance of religion, specifica..

It is Right to Rebel, available in English for the first time, comprises extensive dialogues between the philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, journalist and founder of Liberation Philippe Gavi and political radical and Maoist Pierre Victor, conducted between 1972 and 1974...

Making the case that J. G. Ballard's fiction must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. A very different portrait of Ballard emerges, one that has implications f..

Illuminating J.M. Coetzee's preoccupation, from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, with the paradox of postcolonial authorship centering on the authority authorship engenders, Jane Poyner examines Coetzee's line of author-narrators to trace how he rehearses and revises his understanding of intellectu..

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic. It includes essays exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his work on linguistics; and, by paying part..

Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy..

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

John Dos Passos (1896-1970). Important American writer of the 1930s and 40s. Writings include Manhattan Transfer, Three Soldiers, USA. Volume covers the period 1921-1975...

Offering an exciting forum for one of the most interesting and nascent areas of Conrad studies, this collection examines major and neglected works within the context of the performing arts, including popular theatrical traditions, early cinema, shadow plays, Shakespeare, and opera. Taken together, t..

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, attending to Ishigur..