Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking a comparative approach to literary studies, this series visits the relationship of literature and language alongside a variety of interdisciplinary and transnational topics. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Convergence of East-West Poetics: Williams’s Negotiation with the Chinese Landscape Tradition
1st Edition
By Zhanghui Yang
July 23, 2024
The present book examines William Carlos Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of the Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing. Focusing on Walliams’s landscape modes of landscape with(out) infused emotions, the book builds a linkage between their interactions with...
The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature: A Self-Constructed Fantasy
1st Edition
By Elena Anastasaki
May 27, 2024
This study addresses the question of artistic identity and the myth of the artist as it has been shaped by the artists themselves. While the term artist is to be understood in a broad sense, the focus of this study is the literature of the Romantic tradition. Identity is largely perceived as a ...
Women Writing Trauma in the Global South: A Study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy
1st Edition
By Annemarie Pabel
May 27, 2024
Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Trauma in the Global South dismantles conceptual shortcomings and problematic imbalances at the core of existing theorizations around psychological trauma. The global constellation ...
The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos
1st Edition
Edited
By Carsten Meiner, Katrine Helene Andersen
May 08, 2024
As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a ...
Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives
1st Edition
By Valeria Taddei
April 10, 2024
The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality. Yet the critical use of the concept is still contested, complicated by the fact that in many modernist works exceptional moments are ...
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change
1st Edition
By Daniel Just
January 29, 2024
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of ...
Mystic Modernity: Tagore and Yeats
1st Edition
By Ashim Dutta
September 25, 2023
This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply ...
Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States
1st Edition
By Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
May 31, 2023
Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, ...
Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era
1st Edition
By Sreya Chatterjee
May 31, 2023
Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a ...
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations
1st Edition
By Thorsten Wilhelm
May 31, 2023
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is ...
New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelly Comfort, Marylaura Papalas
May 31, 2023
This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present. Divided into three sections—geography, genius, and gender—the introduction establishes the origins of the flâneur and flâneuse in early ...
Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
1st Edition
By Stefanie John
May 31, 2023
This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish ...