Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics in American Literature and Culture.
The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy
1st Edition
By Charul Palmer-Patel
June 30, 2021
The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally defined by its impossibility, Fantasy Fiction not an illogical form. It is, in fact, governed by a ...
Wallace and I: Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction
1st Edition
By Jamie Redgate
June 30, 2021
Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being," what he actually meant by the term "human being" has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace was a posthumanist writer, and too theoretically ...
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Rutter, Darlene Scott
December 13, 2019
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic ...