Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
1st Edition
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By Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
December 27, 2022
The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by ...
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
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By Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
December 09, 2022
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have ...
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction
1st Edition
By Jean-Michel Ganteau
February 12, 2018
This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to ...
Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction
1st Edition
By Lorna Piatti-Farnell
February 06, 2018
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Food Studies and American literary scholarship, Piatti-Farnell investigates the significances of food and eating in American fiction, from 1980 to the present day. She argues that culturally-coded representations of the culinary illuminate ...
Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
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By Ana María Sánchez-Arce
February 06, 2018
This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of the role of the author in the ...
Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body
1st Edition
By Laura Colombino
February 06, 2018
This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in ...
The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature
1st Edition
By Lorna Piatti-Farnell
February 06, 2018
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires ...
Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome
1st Edition
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By James Peacock, Tim Lustig
February 05, 2018
The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two ...
Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature
1st Edition
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By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
May 31, 2017
Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been ...
Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands
1st Edition
By Manuel Broncano
January 29, 2016
This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an approach on the grounds that the nihilist ...
Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics
1st Edition
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By Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López
November 10, 2014
This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and ...
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk
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By Paul Crosthwaite
June 19, 2014
The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; ...