Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with…

Hardback – 2016-03-01 
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By Maik Nwosu

This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the…

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By Elvira Pulitano

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a…

Hardback – 2016-03-01 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Justin D. Edwards, Sandra G.T. Vasconcelos

This volume examines the cultural forms of the Gothic in literature, film, and culture in the tropical and sub-tropical ‘South’ of the Americas. It is structured around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and moves between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Costa Rica,…

Hardback – 2016-02-09 
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Edited by Rachael Gilmour, Tamar Steinitz

At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘…

Hardback – 2016-01-01 
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By Heike Hartung

This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing…

Hardback – 2015-12-11 
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Edited by Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "…

Hardback – 2015-12-10 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Jernej Habjan, Fabienne Imlinger

Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the book is a timely…

Hardback – 2015-12-09 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Alexandra Schultheis Moore

This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on…

Hardback – 2015-11-09 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Michael D'Arcy, Mathias Nilges

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent…

Hardback – 2015-11-09 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Casey Cothran, Mercy Cannon

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity,…

Hardback – 2015-11-04 
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Edited by Jeffrey Clapp, Emily Ridge

With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in the volume span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and the…

Hardback – 2015-10-23 
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By Eóin Flannery

This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry…

Hardback – 2015-10-16 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Daniel F. Silva

This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important…

Hardback – 2015-09-08
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Helen Young

This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan…

Hardback – 2015-09-01
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Matthew Bush, Tania Gentic

Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this book visits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in…

Hardback – 2015-07-27
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, Serpil Oppermann

Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has…

Paperback – 2015-07-16
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Edited by Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, Frans Mäyrä

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of…

Hardback – 2015-07-02
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Stefan Helgesson, Pieter Vermeulen

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as…

Hardback – 2015-07-01
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By Guillermina De Ferrari

Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De…

Paperback – 2015-06-23
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Miriam Wallraven

Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden…

Hardback – 2015-06-18
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these…

Hardback – 2015-06-16
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien

This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary…

Hardback – 2015-05-06
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By Patricia García

Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply…

Hardback – 2015-05-05
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By Jason Haslam

This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the…

Hardback – 2015-05-01
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Edited by Marina Grishakova, Silvi Salupere

Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as…

Hardback – 2015-04-23
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, Anthony Carrigan

This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking…

Hardback – 2015-04-15
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By Layla AbdelRahim

This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,…

Hardback – 2015-03-09
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker

William Blake’s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own…

Paperback – 2015-02-27
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Edited by Justin D. Edwards

This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. The engaging essays look into the links…

Hardback – 2015-01-28
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Birgit Mara Kaiser

Over the past decade ‘singularity’ has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications, proposing to explore the…

Hardback – 2014-12-23
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By David Aberbach

Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via nationality…

Hardback – 2014-12-18
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Edited by Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann

This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the…

Hardback – 2014-12-17
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By Basuli Deb

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine,…

Hardback – 2014-11-24
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons, Youngsuk Chae, Bella Adams

This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies…

Hardback – 2014-11-10
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Daniel H. Rellstab, Christiane Schlote

War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and…

Hardback – 2014-10-10
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By Christin Hoene

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit…

Hardback – 2014-08-07
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Monica Germana, Aris Mousoutzanis

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world’s globalised space,…

Hardback – 2014-07-25
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Meghan Marie Hammond, Sue J. Kim

In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "…

Hardback – 2014-07-25
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos

The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is…

Hardback – 2014-07-25
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Andrew Shail

Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early…

Paperback – 2014-07-17
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Edited by Antony Rowland, Jane Kilby

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and…

Hardback – 2014-06-10
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Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional…

Hardback – 2014-05-05
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Marita Nadal, Mónica Calvo

Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in…

Hardback – 2014-04-02
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Edited by Andrew Lawson

This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American…

Hardback – 2014-03-04
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By Elana Gomel

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity…

Hardback – 2014-03-04
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art…

Paperback – 2014-02-14
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Mark J. Bruhn, Donald R. Wehrs

Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical…

Hardback – 2013-11-22
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By Caroline Brown

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,…

Paperback – 2013-11-08
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Edited by Christopher Eagle

Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national…

Hardback – 2013-10-08
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