Routledge Engagements with Literature
About the Book Series
Routledge Engagements with Literature is a series that presents engagement as a means of discovery. Unlike other books that simply provide references and overviews, this series offers students and instructors new ways to engage with the literature they are studying, teaching, or researching. Each book balances foundational information and key topics with new developments and trends while also looking forward to work yet to be done, offering different or challenging approaches and perspectives.
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory
1st Edition
By Lorna Burns
May 25, 2026
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and themes that have shaped the evolution of postcolonial literary studies. Encompassing prose, poetry, and drama, this book navigates the history of postcolonial literature and its ...
Engagements with Literary Gaming
1st Edition
By Tison Pugh, Lynn Ramey
March 31, 2026
How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the cultural significance of these two converging forms, defining the concept of literary gaming for a new narrative, ludic, and media landscape. Narratives have long featured ludic themes, ...
Engagements with Children’s and Young Adult Literature
1st Edition
By Lydia Kokkola, Sara Van den Bossche
July 10, 2025
Engagements with Children’s and Young Adult Literature offers an accessible guide to studying Children’s and Young Adult (CYA) literature, teaching readers how to read critically. This book introduces this dynamic field encompassing diverse genres, audiences, and interpretations. Lydia Kokkola and ...
Engagements with Adaptation
1st Edition
By Thomas Leitch
March 24, 2025
Engagements with Adaptation invites students both to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the urgent questions they raise about literary canons; the media industry; the relations between different kinds of media; the nature of national, political, and cultural identities;...
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory
1st Edition
By Evan Gottlieb
November 01, 2019
Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to ...
Engagements with Shakespearean Drama
1st Edition
By William Walker
April 17, 2019
Rather than treating the plays as objects to be studied, described and interpreted, Engagements with Shakespearean Drama examines precisely what about Shakespeare’s plays is so special – why they continue to be discussed and performed all around the world. This book highlights the importance ...
Engagements with Narrative
1st Edition
By Janine Utell
October 23, 2015
Balancing key foundational topics with new developments and trends, Engagements with Narrative offers an accessible introduction to narratology. As new narrative forms and media emerge, the study of narrative and the ways people communicate through imagination, empathy, and storytelling is ...
Engagements with Close Reading
1st Edition
By Annette Federico
October 20, 2015
What should we do with a literary work? Is it best to become immersed in a novel or poem, or is our job to objectively dissect it? Should we consult literature as a source of knowledge or wisdom, or keenly interrogate its designs upon us? Do we excavate the text as an historical artifact, or ...