Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature – serie
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Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy
Beyond Reckoning
Häftad, 2020
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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 …
Apocalyptic Territories
Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction
Av Anna Hellén
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. This study, by …
Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
Apocryphal Borderlands
Inbunden, 2013
3173 kr
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This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an approach on the grounds that the nihilist …
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English
Av Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, José María Yebra-Pertusa
Inbunden, 2019
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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, …
Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel
An Elliptical Dialogue with the Thinking of Jacques Derrida
Inbunden, 2019
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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 …
David Foster Wallace and the Body
Av Peter Sloane
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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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 …
All Along Bob Dylan
America and the World
Inbunden, 2020
3173 kr
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All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the …
Haruki Murakami
Storytelling and Productive Distance
Inbunden, 2019
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Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to …
Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature
Inbunden, 2019
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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 …
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat
Av Celucien Joseph, Suchismita Banerjee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring …
Urban Captivity Narratives
Women’s Writing After 9/11
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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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 …
Tim O'Brien
The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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This collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried, contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all …
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction
Literature Beyond Fordism
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and …
Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change
Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties, examines alternative presses’ critique of culture at a time of infamous transformation and revolution in the United States. In this new study, author Matthew Pifer seeks to delineate the structure …
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English
Art of Crisis
Inbunden, 2019
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Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a perfect artistic vehicle to represent the crisis-ridden reality …
Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature
Strategic Evasion
Av Matthias Eck
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the mental structures of hegemonic masculinity. It argues that while there is evidence of frustrating …
Displaced
Literature of Indigeneity, Migration, and Trauma
Av Kate Rose
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma. In a world of increasing global inequality, this study aims to demonstrate how literature, and the study of it, can …
Reading Contingency
The Accident in Contemporary Fiction
Av David Wylot
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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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 …
Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance
Av Phil O'Brien
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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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 …
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma
Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves
Inbunden, 2021
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This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, …
All Along Bob Dylan
America and the World
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the …
Fact of the Cage
Reading and Redemption In David Foster Wallace’s "Infinite Jest"
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, The Fact of the Cage shows how Wallace’s masterpiece dramatizes the …
Extreme States
The Evolution of American Transgressive Fiction 1960-2000
Av Coco d'Hont
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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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 …
Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre
Av Erin Hurt
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 …
From the Delivered to the Dispatched
Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977)
Häftad, 2020
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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 …
Poetry Against the World
Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain
Häftad, 2020
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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
Häftad, 2020
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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 …
Gender and Short Fiction
Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain
Av Jorge Sacido-Romero, Laura Lojo-Rodríguez
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 …
Women on the Move
Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing
Av Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Julia Tofantshuk
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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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, migration and …
Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction
A Paradoxical Quest
Av Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 …
