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.
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
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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,...
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience
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By Elvira Pulitano
December 10, 2019
This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a ...
Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin D. Edwards, Sandra Vasconcelos
December 10, 2019
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional...
Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture
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By Alexandra Schultheis Moore
December 10, 2019
This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on ...
War Gothic in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
December 10, 2019
In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "...
Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
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By Miriam Wallraven
December 10, 2019
Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden ...
Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics
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By Joel Bettridge
July 29, 2019
Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde—now more than a century old—persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions....
Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry
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By Bryan Walpert
August 23, 2018
This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of...
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
1st Edition
Edited
By Antony Rowland, Jane Kilby
August 23, 2018
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and ...
Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity
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Edited
By Jernej Habjan, Fabienne Imlinger
February 13, 2018
Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the book is a timely ...