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.
Feminist Theory Across Disciplines: Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry
1st Edition
By Shira Wolosky
February 06, 2018
Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary ...
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction: Reflections on Fantastic Identities
1st Edition
By Jason Haslam
February 06, 2018
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the ...
Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice
1st Edition
By Eóin Flannery
February 06, 2018
This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry...
Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature: The Alchemical Literary Imagination
1st Edition
By Kathleen Renk
February 06, 2018
This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial ...
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, Jopi Nyman
February 06, 2018
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural,...
Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature
1st Edition
By Christin Hoene
February 06, 2018
This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit ...
Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature
1st Edition
By Elana Gomel
February 06, 2018
Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity ...
Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: The Architectural Void
1st Edition
By Patricia Garcia
February 06, 2018
Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply ...
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Grishakova, Silvi Salupere
February 06, 2018
Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as ...
Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Marita Nadal, Mónica Calvo
February 06, 2018
Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in ...
Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness
1st Edition
By Layla AbdelRahim
February 05, 2018
This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation, ...
Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
February 05, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional ...