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.
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, Jopi Nyman
February 06, 2018
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural,...
Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature
1st Edition
By Christin Hoene
February 06, 2018
This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit ...
Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature
1st Edition
By Elana Gomel
February 06, 2018
Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity ...
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void
1st Edition
By Patricia Garcia
February 06, 2018
Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply ...
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Grishakova, Silvi Salupere
February 06, 2018
Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as ...
Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Marita Nadal, Mónica Calvo
February 06, 2018
Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in ...
Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
1st Edition
By Layla AbdelRahim
February 05, 2018
This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation, ...
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
February 05, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional ...
Rethinking Empathy through Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Meghan Marie Hammond, Sue J. Kim
February 05, 2018
In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "...
Modern Orthodoxies: Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Lisa Mulman
May 31, 2017
This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the ...
Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Metaphysics and the Play of Violence
1st Edition
By Daniel Tompsett
May 31, 2017
This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of ...
Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain
1st Edition
By Clare Hanson
May 24, 2017
This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between ...