Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Ethics and Aesthetics in Ali Smith’s Fiction
1st Edition
By José I. Prieto-Arranz
July 28, 2025
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...
Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture
1st Edition
By Andrew Nyongesa
June 26, 2025
This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame...
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync
1st Edition
By Sonia Front
June 19, 2025
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 ...
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze
1st Edition
By Alyce Corbett
May 22, 2025
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 ...
Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels
1st Edition
By Irene O’Leary
May 11, 2025
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 ...
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India
1st Edition
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By Srirupa Chatterjee, Sharada Chigurupati
April 28, 2025
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 ...
Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction
1st Edition
By Ken Ireland
April 14, 2025
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 ...
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt
March 27, 2025
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 ...
Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
1st Edition
By Erin Mercer
December 18, 2024
Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and ...
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
1st Edition
Edited
By Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
December 18, 2024
Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give ...
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels
1st Edition
By Eva-Maria Windberger
November 29, 2024
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. Aiming to situate and establish empowerment firmly within the context of literary studies, it offers the ...
Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises
1st Edition
By Kyra Piperides
November 28, 2024
Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and ...