Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Patrick McGrath and his Worlds: Madness and the Transnational Gothic
1st Edition
Edited
By Matt Foley, Rebecca Duncan
December 13, 2021
Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath’s transnational status as an English author resident in New York, his pointed manipulation of British and American contexts, and his clear apprehension of imperial legacies have ...
Poetry and the Question of Modernity: From Heidegger to the Present
1st Edition
By Ian Cooper
December 13, 2021
Interest in Martin Heidegger was recently reawakened by the revelations, in his newly published ‘Black Notebooks’, of the full terrible extent of his political commitments in the 1930s and 1940s. The revelations reminded us of the dark allegiances co-existing with one of the profoundest and most ...
Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By David Wylot
December 13, 2021
In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly ...
The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature
1st Edition
By Michael Bryson
December 13, 2021
The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of ...
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction: Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance
1st Edition
By Phil O'Brien
December 13, 2021
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and Sunjeev Sahota, the book shows how they have...
Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm
1st Edition
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By Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
December 13, 2021
Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on...
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English
1st Edition
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By Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, José María Yebra-Pertusa
December 13, 2021
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A. S. Byatt, ...
David Foster Wallace and the Body
1st Edition
By Peter Sloane
June 30, 2021
David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme...
George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form
1st Edition
By Joseph Young
June 30, 2021
Using the frameworks of literary theory relevant to modern fantasy, Dr. Joseph Young undertakes a compelling examination of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and his employment of the structural demands and thematic aptitudes of his chosen genre. Examining Martin’s approaches to his ...
Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel: An Elliptical Dialogue with the Thinking of Jacques Derrida
1st Edition
By Eileen Pollard
June 30, 2021
Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida’s thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher’s preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel’s writing, not just in terms of ...
Urban Captivity Narratives: Women’s Writing After 9/11
1st Edition
By Heather Hillsburg
June 30, 2021
Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts examined in the study follows a female ...
Extreme States: The Evolution of American Transgressive Fiction 1960-2000
1st Edition
By Coco d'Hont
September 30, 2020
Transgressive fiction explores the crossing of boundaries. Because of its extreme content and style, it is often considered controversial. However, transgressive fiction is not just shocking or disruptive. It is a continuation of an American tradition of creating culture through the crossing of ...