Routledge Literature Companions
About the Book Series
Field-defining volumes in new and exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners, or handy volumes for those already working in the field: summarising current scholarship, whilst pushing the boundaries of emerging trends they are must-have collections.
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke
1st Edition
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By Riccardo Moratto, Howard Yuen Fung Choy
January 29, 2024
Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China. At the forefront of the “mythorealist” Chinese avant-garde and using absurdist humor and grotesque satire, Yan’s works have caught much critical attention not only in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong,...
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
1st Edition
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By Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Andrew Pepper
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging ...
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
1st Edition
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By Michelle Wang, Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, ...
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
1st Edition
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By Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Andrea Charise
May 31, 2023
The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
1st Edition
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By Alice Hall
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
1st Edition
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By Colin Davis, Hanna Meretoja
May 31, 2023
Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of ...
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature
1st Edition
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By Deborah L. Madsen
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native ...
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing
1st Edition
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By Aroosa Kanwal, Saiyma Aslam
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today, from terrorism, religious extremism, fundamentalism, corruption,...
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies
1st Edition
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By Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, Takayuki Tatsumi
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the ...
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
1st Edition
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By May Hawas
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes ...
The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature
1st Edition
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By Jennifer Boyle, Helen Burgess
August 29, 2022
Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools and interfaces, as well as the modalities, theories and forms, central to some of the most exciting new research and critical, scholarly and artistic production in medieval and ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
1st Edition
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By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
December 13, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and ...