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.
Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Barnhart, Marit Grøtta
August 26, 2024
Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, ...
The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
August 26, 2024
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study will appeal to those interested in Churchill, ...
Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Allen
August 15, 2024
The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it’s changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ understandings of disability continue to gain traction...
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature: A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis
1st Edition
By Tammy Amiel Houser
August 06, 2024
This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the ...
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought
1st Edition
By Robert Hughes
August 01, 2024
Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects ...
Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature
1st Edition
By Clinton Bennett
May 27, 2024
Since medieval times, English literature has often demonized Muslims. The term ‘Islamophobia’ is recent, but the phenomenon is old. This survey of literature focusing on the modern period up to 1914 identifies negative ideas about Islam in novels and plays. Some works are iconic, some more obscure....
Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts
1st Edition
By Esterino Adami
May 27, 2024
Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this ...
Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time: A Social-Semiotic Perspective
1st Edition
By Rosemary Huisman
May 27, 2024
This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human – and non-human – experience, woven together (the ‘texture of ...
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass
1st Edition
By Alex Donovan Cole
May 27, 2024
This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s ...
The Words of Winston Churchill
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 27, 2024
The Words of Winston Churchill, a study that ranges over the course of a rich, controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker. Churchill used words as the greatest of poets and orators do, and did so in Parliament and for the people, Britain ...
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By James Rovira
May 27, 2024
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé...
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue
1st Edition
Edited
By Magda Dragu
April 30, 2024
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed. The book studies ...