Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age
1st Edition
Edited
By GABRIELE DÜRBECK, PHILIP HÜPKES
December 13, 2021
This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene discourse creates novel conceptual configurations and enables scholars to re-negotiate and ...
The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales: Space, Time, and Bodies
1st Edition
By Kendra Reynolds
December 13, 2021
This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a ‘subversive twin’ or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of ...
Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through Translation
1st Edition
By Andrew Samuel Walsh
February 01, 2022
Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico García Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation. As new translations of Federico García Lorca continue to appear in the English-speaking world and his ...
Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic
1st Edition
Edited
By Margarida Rendeiro, Federica Lupati
June 30, 2021
Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from various fields of expertise examine the ways ...
Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion
1st Edition
By Jan Ellyn Goggans
June 30, 2021
Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths to achieving white femininity, a prized ...
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort
1st Edition
By Sara Martín
June 30, 2021
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power ...
Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: Something to Hold on to
1st Edition
By Sara Tanderup Linkis
June 30, 2021
"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital...
Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain
1st Edition
By Stewart King
June 30, 2021
As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a ...
Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss
1st Edition
Edited
By Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
June 30, 2021
Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following ...
The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity
1st Edition
By Scarlett Baron
June 30, 2021
Why was the term ‘intertextuality’ coined? Why did its first theorists feel the need to replace or complement those terms – of quotation, allusion, echo, reference, influence, imitation, parody, pastiche, among others – which had previously seemed adequate and sufficient to the description of ...
Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
June 30, 2021
Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form. It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles ...
Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media
1st Edition
By Jill Anderson
April 21, 2021
In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans. Used as a way to promote security in a period rife with anxieties about nuclear annihilation and The Bomb, these narratives ...