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 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,...
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...