Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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 ...
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
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By Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
December 18, 2024
Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give ...
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
1st Edition
By Laura Colombino
December 09, 2024
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters – their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and...
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels
1st Edition
By Eva-Maria Windberger
November 29, 2024
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. Aiming to situate and establish empowerment firmly within the context of literary studies, it offers the ...
Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises
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By Kyra Piperides
November 28, 2024
Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and ...
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction: ‘What’s One More Murder?’
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By Anthony Lake
November 28, 2024
This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their legacies. It discusses novels written by five authors: David Downing, Philip Kerr, Luke McCallin, Joseph Kanon and David Thomas. Their work belongs to ...
At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City
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By Gerald Gaylard
October 08, 2024
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have...
Olga Tokarczuk: Comparative Perspectives
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By Lidia Wiśniewska, Jakub Lipski
October 08, 2024
Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings to ...