Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Singularity and Transnational Poetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Birgit Mara Kaiser
December 10, 2019
Over the past decade ‘singularity’ has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications, proposing to explore the ...
Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories
1st Edition
By Roger Whitson
December 10, 2019
Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse ...
Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire�s Individuals
1st Edition
By Daniel F. Silva
December 10, 2019
This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important ...
Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin D. Edwards
December 10, 2019
This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. The engaging essays look into the links ...
Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Bush, Tania Gentic
December 10, 2019
Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this book visits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in ...
The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Alfred Bendixen, Olivia Carr Edenfield
December 10, 2019
This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the ...
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter
1st Edition
By Maik Nwosu
December 10, 2019
This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the ...
The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange
1st Edition
By Hazel Smith
December 10, 2019
This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, ...
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque
1st Edition
By Michel Delville, Andrew Norris
December 10, 2019
This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or...
The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Maria Beville
December 10, 2019
This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminacy. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the gothic, science fiction, and horror, the unnameable ...
Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot
1st Edition
By Ranjan Ghosh
December 10, 2019
Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of ...
Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Basuli Deb
December 10, 2019
This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine,...