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 Theological Dickens
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
May 31, 2023
This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, ...
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature
1st Edition
By J. Roger Kurtz
May 31, 2023
This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of ...
Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm, Vlad Strukov
May 31, 2023
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the...
War Comics: A Postcolonial Perspective
1st Edition
By Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
May 31, 2023
This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem ...
Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection
1st Edition
By William Franke
January 09, 2023
Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the ...
Digital Literature and Critical Theory
1st Edition
By Annika Elstermann
December 27, 2022
The aim at the core of this book is a synthesis of increasingly popular and culturally significant forms of digital literature on the one hand, and established literary and critical theory on the other: reading digital texts through the lens of canonical theory, but also reading this more ...
Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan
1st Edition
By Rakhshan Rizwan
February 01, 2022
Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings -- memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane -- published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India or in the diaspora. It offers a new perspective on these works by analyzing them within the ...
Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatriz Gonzalez Moreno, Fernando González-Moreno
February 01, 2022
Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back, whereas the Romantic idea of belonging ...
Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through Translation
1st Edition
By Andrew Samuel Walsh
November 29, 2021
Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico García Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation. As new translations of Federico García Lorca continue to appear in the English-speaking world and his ...
Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media
1st Edition
By Jill Anderson
April 21, 2021
In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans. Used as a way to promote security in a period rife with anxieties about nuclear annihilation and The Bomb, these narratives ...
Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry
1st Edition
By Bryan Walpert
August 23, 2018
This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of...
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
1st Edition
Edited
By Antony Rowland, Jane Kilby
August 23, 2018
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and ...