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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature


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This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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Literary Fiction and the Hearing Sciences

Literary Fiction and the Hearing Sciences

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Edited By Edward Allen
August 15, 2024

The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it’s changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities, and as the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ understandings of disability continue to gain ...

The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature Thinking the Body-Thought

The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought

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By Robert Hughes
August 01, 2024

Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects ...

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

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By Clinton Bennett
May 27, 2024

Since medieval times, English literature has often demonized Muslims. The term ‘Islamophobia’ is recent, but the phenomenon is old. This survey of literature focusing on the modern period up to 1914 identifies negative ideas about Islam in novels and plays. Some works are iconic, some more obscure....

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts

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By Esterino Adami
May 27, 2024

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this ...

Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time A Social-Semiotic Perspective

Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time: A Social-Semiotic Perspective

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By Rosemary Huisman
May 27, 2024

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human – and non-human – experience, woven together (the ‘texture of ...

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

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By Alex Donovan Cole
May 27, 2024

This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s ...

The Words of Winston Churchill

The Words of Winston Churchill

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By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 27, 2024

The Words of Winston Churchill, a study that ranges over the course of a rich, controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker. Churchill used words as the greatest of poets and orators do, and did so in Parliament and for the people, Britain ...

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

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Edited By James Rovira
May 27, 2024

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé...

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage Between Cut and Glue

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue

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Edited By Magda Dragu
April 30, 2024

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed. The book studies ...

Reading Digital Fiction Narrative, Cognition, Mediality

Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality

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By Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin
April 18, 2024

Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of “medial reading”, it argues for the centrality of an audience’s interest in, ...

Resistant Reproductions Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

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By Fran Bigman
March 29, 2024

Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, ...

Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese

Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese

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By Carlos Garrido Castellano
January 29, 2024

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative ...

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