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.
Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda
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By Anthony Cirilla, Vincent Rone
December 13, 2021
The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia, Tolkien makes the case that the fairy tale aesthetic is simply a more intimate...
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet: English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
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By Claire Hélie, Elise Brault-Dreux, Emilie Loriaux
December 13, 2021
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining ...
The Algerian War Retold: Of Camus’s Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation
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By Meaghan Emery
December 13, 2021
The Algerian War Retold: Of Camus’s Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation focuses on specific aspects of Albert Camus’s ethical thought through a study of his writings in conjunction with late 20th- and early 21st-century works written by Franco-Maghrebi authors on the topic of the Algerian War (1954-...
The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age
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By GABRIELE DÜRBECK, PHILIP HÜPKES
December 13, 2021
This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene discourse creates novel conceptual configurations and enables scholars to re-negotiate and ...
The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales: Space, Time, and Bodies
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By Kendra Reynolds
December 13, 2021
This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a ‘subversive twin’ or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of ...
Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through Translation
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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 ...
Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic
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By Margarida Rendeiro, Federica Lupati
June 30, 2021
Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from various fields of expertise examine the ways ...
Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion
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By Jan Ellyn Goggans
June 30, 2021
Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths to achieving white femininity, a prized ...
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort
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By Sara Martín
June 30, 2021
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power ...
Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: Something to Hold on to
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By Sara Tanderup Linkis
June 30, 2021
"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital...
Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain
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By Stewart King
June 30, 2021
As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a ...
Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss
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By Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
June 30, 2021
Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following ...