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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Memory and Nation-Building

Vandana Saxena

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communiti... Lees meer

At Home with Ivan Vladislavic

Gerald Gaylard

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur's "internal GPS" to postcolonia... 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