Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Autofiction and Translingualism in Contemporary Germanophone Writing: Transidentifications
1st Edition
By Danya Harvey
January 27, 2027
Offering a self-consciously queer survey of contemporary German life writing, Autofiction and Translingualism in Contemporary Germanophone Writing: Transidentifications aims to contextualise the emergent genres of autofiction (the creative writing of one’s own life) and translingualism with bodies ...
African Writing and the Double Bind of Globality
1st Edition
By Mohammad Shabangu
November 12, 2026
Theoretically broad ranging and grounded in close readings that are attuned to the opacity of African works, African Writing and the Double Bind of Globality advocates for an attentive reading posture that treats African literature as a philosophically productive entity that informs our sense of '...
Ethics and Aesthetics in Ali Smith’s Fiction
1st Edition
By José I. Prieto-Arranz
October 16, 2026
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and...
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync
1st Edition
By Sonia Front
October 16, 2026
This book investigates representations of time in twenty‑first‑century Anglo‑American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of ...
Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels
1st Edition
By Irene O’Leary
August 26, 2026
This book is about the dynamic processes that generate novel-reading. It takes the view that the world is composed of dynamic processes and introduces a process dynamics approach to articulate this stance. This fresh perspective draws on literary studies, process philosophy and neuroscience to ...
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze
1st Edition
By Alyce Corbett
August 26, 2026
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. This book both defines and helps shape the contours of four ...
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination
1st Edition
By Peter D. Mathews
August 18, 2026
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers. Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative ...
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India
1st Edition
Edited
By Srirupa Chatterjee, Sharada Chigurupati
July 19, 2026
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective. It examines the literary musings of ...
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt
July 19, 2026
This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence ...
Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction
1st Edition
By Ken Ireland
July 19, 2026
The omnipresence of narrative in our real-life experience and in the media world makes it a vital and relevant factor for study. This book presents an easily accessible guide to a series of key narrative topics, with concise entries in a transparent format of compact paragraphs allowing quick ...
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
1st Edition
By Laura Colombino
May 21, 2026
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters – their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and...
The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
May 21, 2026
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including ...