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, ...
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...
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese
1st Edition
By Carlos Garrido Castellano
January 29, 2024
The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative ...
The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison
1st Edition
By Philip Goldstein
January 29, 2024
This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book ...
Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus
September 25, 2023
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) ...
Cultures of Currencies: Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan Ramon Resina
September 25, 2023
This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and ...