From the Delivered to the Dispatched

Harriet Stilley

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fic... Lees meer

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the work... Lees meer

Haruki Murakami

Chikako Nihei

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Mu... Lees meer

Literature After 9/11

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature | nr. 1
• Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways t... Lees meer

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

Roberto del Valle Alcalá

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagement... Lees meer

Extreme States

Coco D'Hont

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Transgressive fiction explores the crossing of boundaries. Because of its extreme content and style, it is often considered controversial. However, tr... Lees meer

Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put co... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit

Heike Missler

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bus... Lees meer

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of... Lees meer

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

Jean-Michel Ganteau

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vu... Lees meer

Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• While previous research has focused primarily on white American chick lit, Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre, takes a wider ... Lees meer

Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English

Wojciech Drag

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form establishe... Lees meer

Reading Contingency

David Wylot

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction , David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accident... Lees meer

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature

Laura Colombino

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an em... Lees meer

Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• The etymological affinity between 'criticism' and 'crisis' has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood ... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit

Heike Missler

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bus... Lees meer

Reading Chuck Palahniuk

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature | nr. 2
• Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful ... Lees meer

Beyond Cyberpunk

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no ... Lees meer

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

Sara Upstone

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literat... Lees meer

Of Love and Loss

Tom McAlindon

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 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 ... Lees meer

David Foster Wallace and the Body

Peter Sloane

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 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 rep... Lees meer

George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form

Joseph Young

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Using the frameworks of literary theory relevant to modern fantasy, Dr. Joseph Young undertakes a compelling examination of George R. R. Martin's A So... Lees meer

Urban Captivity Narratives

Heather Hillsburg

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 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... Lees meer

The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of t... Lees meer