Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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?’
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood's Dystopias
1st Edition
By Esther Muñoz-González
October 08, 2024
In this book, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels—The Handmaid’s Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments—are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the...
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
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By Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske
September 30, 2024
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction seeks to provide an overview of the ways in which broadly understood contemporary fiction envisions, explores and engenders minds going beyond the classical models. The opening essay discusses the complex relationships between such innovative concepts of the...
The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative
1st Edition
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By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
September 12, 2024
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including ...
The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative
1st Edition
By Jean-Michel Ganteau
August 26, 2024
This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that ...
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun
1st Edition
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By Linda Badley, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir, Gitte Mose
August 20, 2024
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the Icelandic contemporary poet Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, b. 1962), who is considered by some to be Iceland’s most distinctive and multifaceted contemporary author. This collection ...