Twentieth-century Poetry, Fiction, Theory

The issues addressed in this volume include the limits of language and the need for linguistic form, the significance of creating.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts.

Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz’s reading of modern fiction and poetry as mediating between human desire and human action

Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic. As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop ha

Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social th

This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This perio

The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern peri