Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977)
1st Edition
By Harriet Stilley
September 30, 2020
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between capitalist consumer culture and traditional ...
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain
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By Jorge Sacido-Romero, Laura Lojo-Rodríguez
September 30, 2020
In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social...
Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning
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By Christopher Eagle
September 30, 2020
This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into McCarthy’s writings. There is a strong and growing interest amongst philosophers in the relevance of McCarthy’s writings to key...
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain
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By Magdalena Kay
September 30, 2020
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book ...
Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
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By Armelle Parey
September 30, 2020
This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic ...
Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction
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By Sara Upstone
September 30, 2020
This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing....
The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest
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By Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
September 30, 2020
The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes ...
Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre
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By Erin Hurt
September 30, 2020
Scholars and readers alike need little help identifying the infamous Bridget Jones or Carrie Bradshaw. While it is no stretch to say that these fictional characters are the most recognizable within the chic lit genre, there are certainly many others that have helped define this body of work. While ...
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing
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By Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Julia Kuznetski
September 30, 2020
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, ...
A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11: Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present
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By Katharina Donn
December 10, 2019
The 9/11 attacks brought large-scale violence into the 21st century with force and have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. This book works at the intersection of trauma studies, affect theory, and literary ...
Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial receptions of "weird" narratives
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By E. Dawson Varughese
December 10, 2019
This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term ‘Bharati Fantasy’. This volume is anchored in notions of the ‘weird’ and thus some time is spent understanding this term ...
Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature: The Uses of Detail
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By Nick Levey
December 10, 2019
This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemporary literature impels readers to navigate, tolerate, and enrich the cultural landscape of postindustrial America. It studies the maximalist novels of David Foster Wallace, ...