Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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
Edited
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 ...
Connie Willis’s Science Fiction: Doomsday Every Day
1st Edition
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By Carissa Turner Smith
May 27, 2024
In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis’s most famous novel, along with ...
Real Recognition: What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity
1st Edition
By Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl
May 27, 2024
Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, ...
“All Will Be Swept Away”: Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon
1st Edition
By Wit Pietrzak
May 27, 2024
The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of ...
Of Love and Loss: Hardy Yeats Larkin
1st Edition
By Tom McAlindon
September 25, 2023
A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability. Though the importance of the socio-political and ideological ...
All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World
1st Edition
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By Tymon Adamczewski
May 31, 2023
All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the ...
Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature
1st Edition
By Vandana Saxena
May 31, 2023
Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from ...
The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption In David Foster Wallace’s "Infinite Jest"
1st Edition
By Karl A. Plank
May 31, 2023
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, The Fact of the Cage shows how Wallace’s masterpiece dramatizes the ...
The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Grant Hamilton
May 31, 2023
Étienne Balibar writes that today we are at the end of capitalism. This is not because capitalism has run its course or has met an irresistible force, but because there can be no purer form of capitalism than the one we have today. Taking seriously the idea that this strain of capitalism has not ...