Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

• Paperback | 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

Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative

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• The etymological affinity between 'criticism' and 'crisis' has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood ... Lees meer

Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This landmark collection of essays demonstrates the capacity of literary and cultural criticism, working in dialogue with contemporary narrative texts... Lees meer

Memory and Nation-Building

Vandana Saxena

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 'Memory and Nation-building' turns to the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature to explore the way the collective memories of th... Lees meer

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and politic... 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

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

Reading Chuck Palahniuk

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 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

Genre Fiction of New India

E Dawson Varughese

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so ... Lees meer

Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction

Anthony Lake

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This is the first book- length academic study of the portrayal in contemporary historical crime fiction of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and their le... 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

Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revise... Lees meer

Genre Fiction of New India

E Dawson Varughese

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so ... Lees meer

Displaced

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneit... Lees meer

Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Louise Squire

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environme... 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

Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel

Eileen Pollard

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida's thinking in contemporary literature, with particular empha... Lees meer

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

Roberto del Valle Alcalá

• Paperback | 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

Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultu... Lees meer

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

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

Jean-Michel Ganteau

• Paperback | 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

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

The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

• Hardcover | 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

The Humanist (Re)Turn

Michael Bryson

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