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.
Agatha Christie Goes to War
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Mills, J.C. Bernthal
December 13, 2021
Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other ...
Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock
December 13, 2021
Forged at the intersection of intense interest in the pertinence and uses of biopolitics and biopower, this volume analyzes theoretical and practical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism. Its contributors offer a ...
Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic, Houman Sadri
December 13, 2021
Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new; however in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the output of this type of theme in literature, art, comic books/graphic novels, video games, TV shows, etc. The reasons for this are not exactly clear; it may partly be as ...
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics
1st Edition
By Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako
December 13, 2021
This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ...
D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By John Turner
December 13, 2021
This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed – yet eminently readable – historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.H. Lawrence. ...
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Alcalá González, Ilse Marie Bussing López
December 13, 2021
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous ...
Ethnic Resonances in Performance, Literature, and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Yiorgos Kalogeras, Cathy C. Waegner
December 13, 2021
This volume seeks to weave applications of the dynamic concept of resonance to ethnic studies. Resonance refers to the ever broadening, multidirectional effects of movement or action, a concept significant for many disciplines. The individual chapters exchange the concept of static "intertextuality...
Gerardo Diego’s Creation Myth of Music: Fábula de Equis y Zeda
1st Edition
By Judith Stallings-Ward
December 13, 2021
Since its publication nearly eight decades ago, the consensus among scholars about Fábula de Equis y Zeda, by the Spanish poet Gerardo Diego (1896-1987) remains unchanged: Fábula is an enigmatic avant-garde curiosity. It seems to rob the reader of the reason necessary to interpret it, even as it ...
Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
1st Edition
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By Evert Jan Van Leeuwen, Michael Newton
December 13, 2021
Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to...
Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, Inés Ordiz
December 13, 2021
This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of...
Literature with A White Helmet: The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming, and Representing Refugees
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By Lava Asaad
December 13, 2021
Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee’s body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists. The book relies on a ...
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature: Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau
1st Edition
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By Mario Klarer
December 13, 2021
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart. Where most studies of Mediterranean...