Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction: ‘What’s One More Murder?’
1st Edition
By Anthony Lake
November 28, 2024
This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their legacies. It discusses novels written by five authors: David Downing, Philip Kerr, Luke McCallin, Joseph Kanon and David Thomas. Their work belongs to ...
At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City
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By Gerald Gaylard
October 08, 2024
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have...
Olga Tokarczuk: Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Lidia Wiśniewska, Jakub Lipski
October 08, 2024
Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings to ...
Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood's Dystopias
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By Esther Muñoz-González
October 08, 2024
In this book, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels—The Handmaid’s Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments—are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the...
The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative
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By Jean-Michel Ganteau
August 26, 2024
This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that ...
Connie Willis’s Science Fiction: Doomsday Every Day
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By Carissa Turner Smith
May 27, 2024
In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis’s most famous novel, along with ...
Real Recognition: What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity
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By Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl
May 27, 2024
Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, ...
“All Will Be Swept Away”: Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon
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By Wit Pietrzak
May 27, 2024
The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of ...
Of Love and Loss: Hardy Yeats Larkin
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By Tom McAlindon
September 25, 2023
A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability. Though the importance of the socio-political and ideological ...
All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World
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By Tymon Adamczewski
May 31, 2023
All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the ...
Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature
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By Vandana Saxena
May 31, 2023
Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from ...
The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption In David Foster Wallace’s "Infinite Jest"
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By Karl A. Plank
May 31, 2023
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, The Fact of the Cage shows how Wallace’s masterpiece dramatizes the ...