Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Connie Willis’s Science Fiction: Doomsday Every Day
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Ebury, Christin M. Mulligan
May 07, 2024
This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault ...
Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels
1st Edition
By Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
April 16, 2024
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of...
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
April 16, 2024
Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language ...
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
Edited
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 ...
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves
1st Edition
By Beatriz Pérez Zapata
May 31, 2023
This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma,...