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.
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 ...
Teaching in Times of Crisis: Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Mich Yonah Nyawalo
May 31, 2023
Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities. The book is written in ...
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation
1st Edition
By Ioanna Chatzidimitriou
May 31, 2023
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and Andreï Makine. In particular, it argues that ...
Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria-José Blanco, Claire Williams
May 31, 2023
This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women’s lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and...
World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War
1st Edition
By Pieter Vanhove
May 31, 2023
This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and ...
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
1st Edition
By Ian Almond
May 31, 2023
What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by ...
World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory
1st Edition
By Jan Lensen
May 31, 2023
World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory offers a comparative study of the construction of World War II memory in contemporary German, Flemish, and Dutch literature. More specifically, it investigates in what ways the large temporal distance to the ...
Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema: Identity, Appropriation, and Recontextualization
1st Edition
By Morteza Yazdanjoo
December 29, 2022
As an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied "intertextual dialogism" between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances ...
Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives
1st Edition
By Cullen Goldblatt
April 01, 2022
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under...
Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Shun-Liang Chao, John Michael Corrigan
December 13, 2021
Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought within or across the borders of Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and ...
The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Aleksandar Stevic, Philip Tsang
December 13, 2021
This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a ...