Routledge Focus on Literature
Dialogue in the Digital Age: Why it Matters How We Read and What We Say
1st Edition
By Patrick Grant
September 25, 2023
Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped by dialogue. Patrick Grant looks at the manner in which dialogue informs and connects the personal, political, and religious dimensions of human ...
On Lingering and Literature
1st Edition
By Harold Schweizer
September 25, 2023
Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either. Is lingering lazy? Is it childish? Boring? Do poets linger? (Is that why poetry is boring?) Is...
Sham Ruins: A User's Guide
1st Edition
By Brian Willems
September 25, 2023
In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even ...
Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road
1st Edition
By David Brown Morris
September 25, 2023
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a ...
Biofictions: Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology
1st Edition
By Lejla Kucukalic
May 31, 2023
Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new interdisciplinary area of research that correlates processes of genetics and literature, based on two ...
Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Margaret Jay Jessee
May 31, 2023
Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "...
Mapping the Origins of Figurative Language in Comparative Literature
1st Edition
By Richard Trim
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It represents an interface between linguistics and literature and develops a 6-tier theoretical model which analyses the different factors contributing to the creation of figurative words ...
Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine
1st Edition
By Sweetha Saji, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
May 31, 2023
This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. In this ...
Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness
1st Edition
By Jean-François Vernay
May 31, 2023
This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high- profile writers, literary ...
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception
1st Edition
By Jakub Lipski
May 31, 2023
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new ...
The New Midlife Self-Writing
1st Edition
By Emily O. Wittman
May 31, 2023
In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories ...
The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-François Vernay
May 31, 2023
This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary ...