Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut
1st Edition
Edited
By Zbigniew Białas
November 11, 2025
When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010, had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise he remained ...
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits
1st Edition
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By Claus-Peter Neumann, Pilar Royo-Grasa
September 30, 2025
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth look into how transmodern literatures in English of the last two decades have been dealing with the phenomenon of the limit. The fifteen chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial, ethnical, ...
Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By George Kowalik
September 29, 2025
The phrase “post-postmodernism” has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean? Scholars have defined the term in various, often contradictory ways. Existing studies also rarely centralise race – an essential component in the transition from postmodern ...
Ethics and Aesthetics in Ali Smith’s Fiction
1st Edition
By José I. Prieto-Arranz
July 28, 2025
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and...
Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture
1st Edition
By Andrew Nyongesa
June 26, 2025
This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame...
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync
1st Edition
By Sonia Front
June 19, 2025
This book investigates representations of time in twenty‑first‑century Anglo‑American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of ...
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze
1st Edition
By Alyce Corbett
May 22, 2025
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. This book both defines and helps shape the contours of four ...
Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels
1st Edition
By Irene O’Leary
May 11, 2025
This book is about the dynamic processes that generate novel-reading. It takes the view that the world is composed of dynamic processes and introduces a process dynamics approach to articulate this stance. This fresh perspective draws on literary studies, process philosophy and neuroscience to ...
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India
1st Edition
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By Srirupa Chatterjee, Sharada Chigurupati
April 28, 2025
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective. It examines the literary musings of ...
Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction
1st Edition
By Ken Ireland
April 14, 2025
The omnipresence of narrative in our real-life experience and in the media world makes it a vital and relevant factor for study. This book presents an easily accessible guide to a series of key narrative topics, with concise entries in a transparent format of compact paragraphs allowing quick ...
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
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By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt
March 27, 2025
This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence ...
Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
1st Edition
By Erin Mercer
December 18, 2024
Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and ...