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.
Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture
1st Edition
By Ruth Tsoffar
June 30, 2021
In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew ...
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations
1st Edition
By Abigail Lee Six
June 30, 2021
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found ...
Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film: Secret Messages and Buried Treasure
1st Edition
By Steven F. Walker
September 30, 2020
One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and...
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
1st Edition
Edited
By Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho, Nicola Gavioli
September 30, 2020
When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses ...
Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Jernigan, Walter Wadiak, Michelle Wang
September 30, 2020
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death....
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era: Presenting the Past
1st Edition
By Susan Brantly
September 30, 2020
This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates ...
Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie
December 10, 2019
This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of contemporary reality following the increased mobility between civilisations during the postcolonial ...
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas Fernandez-Medina, Maria Truglio
December 10, 2019
This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a...