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.
Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
1st Edition
By Danny Méndez
May 24, 2017
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and ...
Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature
1st Edition
By Cameron Bushnell
May 24, 2017
This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music’s conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the colonial ...
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film: The Idea of America
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Taylor, Áine Kelly
May 24, 2017
This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American ...
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, Anthony Carrigan
September 29, 2016
This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking ...
American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons
1st Edition
Edited
By Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin
December 18, 2015
This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin ...
International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
1st Edition
Edited
By Greta Gaard, Simon Estok, Serpil Oppermann
July 16, 2015
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...
Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba
1st Edition
By Guillermina De Ferrari
June 23, 2015
Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De ...
William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media
1st Edition
By Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker
February 27, 2015
William Blake’s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own ...
The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism
1st Edition
By Andrew Shail
July 17, 2014
Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early ...
The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Pop Goth
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
February 14, 2014
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art ...
The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity
1st Edition
By Caroline Brown
November 08, 2013
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis Moore
March 21, 2013
What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize ...