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.
Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jernej Habjan, Fabienne Imlinger
February 13, 2018
Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the book is a timely ...
Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä, Frans Mäyrä
February 13, 2018
Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of ...
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified
1st Edition
Edited
By Casey Cothran, Mercy Cannon
February 13, 2018
This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, ...
Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Helgesson, Pieter Vermeulen
February 12, 2018
This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as ...
New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
February 12, 2018
This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary ...
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness
1st Edition
By Helen Young
February 12, 2018
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan ...
Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Thompson
February 12, 2018
Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a ...
The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael D'Arcy, Mathias Nilges
February 12, 2018
At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent ...
Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Germana, Aris Mousoutzanis
February 06, 2018
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world’s globalised space, ...
Asian American Literature and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorna Fitzsimmons, Youngsuk Chae, Bella Adams
February 06, 2018
This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies...
Class and the Making of American Literature: Created Unequal
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Lawson
February 06, 2018
This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American ...
Cognition, Literature, and History
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark J. Bruhn, Donald R. Wehrs
February 06, 2018
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical ...