Literary studies: from c 2000 Books

This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an essential companion for students, researchers and instructors seeking a thorough and accessible guide to contemporary literary and cultural...

Contemporary Galician literature is a central pillar of Galician cultural production and a key driver of the consolidation of Galicia's identity in the twenty-first century, yet it remains largely invisible outside of the borders of Spain. In Translation...

This book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings, to interdisciplinary and intercultural...

Examines the ways queer theory and Mennonite literature have intersected over the past decade and how these two traditions hold fundamental commitments to social justice in common.

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose, and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead...

This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that...

The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other...

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television...

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of...

"Good books, books you want to write, books you need, books you sell"Why are we tickled by the word 'writer'?"Pretend Author" by Lee Gim-mi: A Metafiction Unraveling the Intricate Tapestry of Contents, Reality, and the Writer's JourneyNo one is ashamed...

Das Werk des österreichischen Schriftstellers Clemens J. Setz stellt einen vor Herausforderungen: In der literarischen Öffentlichkeit gelten seine Texte trotz zahlreicher Belobigungen als rätselhaft, irritierend oder sperrig. Einfache oder zumindest...

Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being," what he actually meant by the term "human being" has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace was a...

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick...

This book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, other forms of public discourse. Using the framework of political agenda setting, David A. Rochefort analyzes...

The reviewer must be skilled in persuading, thorough research, astute analysis, and clear writing, regardless of the type and style of review. Furthermore, it is imperative that he or she possesses the ability to distinguish between good and terrible...

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to grow with the publication of his six-volume...

Nachdem die literarische Öffentlichkeit Anfang der 1990er Jahre das Leitbild der engagierten Nachkriegsliteratur verabschiedet und literarische Zeitgenossenschaft als Gesinnungsästhetik diffamiert hatte, erlebt das literarische Feld seit der...

Poetic Thinking. Now develops a poetological anthropology and offers a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Poetic thinking takes place when a subject constitutes itself in creative and dialogical language, transforming its way of perceiving...

This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation. In 2016,...

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent...

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of...

This book analyzes Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale, The MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last and The Testaments from perspective of posthuman theory in the Anthropocene. Atwood shows the evolution of Western society's maladies...

This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn." The Anthropocene discourse creates novel conceptual configurations and...

In Literatur und Film der Gegenwart sind intermediale Bezüge, welche über die eigene Medialität und diejenige anderer Medien reflektieren, weit verbreitet. Diese vermehrte Reflexion gründet nicht nur in einer postmodernen Lust am Spiel, sondern auch in...

Galician literature has historically played an integral role in the consolidation of Galician identity. Yet female novelists writing in Galician have only managed to achieve visibility in the Galician cultural sphere as recently as the turn of the...

From accounts of migration and stories of personal alienation, through the fragmented memories of former incarnations, to fable-like tales of half-breeds and species metamorphosis, Ying Chen’s fiction evolves as it revolves around questions of...

The Birth and Death of the Author　is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of the finest international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case...

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era...

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circumstances like conflicts.

Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster - the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic call for social justice. Written by a first-generation Kannada Dalit writer, the book provides an insider's view of caste...

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into the ways in which the politics of representation have changed, the conflicts that arise in these coming-of-age narratives between the...

This is a collection of essays on culture and history of India including Jagannath culture, Nabakalebara. This book has chapters on how to live a better life and how to raise a good family too.

Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become...

Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship...

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. It argues that literary texts can make readers get what social acknowledgment is...

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity and convey ideology and benefits from an interdisciplinary methodology to read contemporary...

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only investigating the so-called "Theatre of the Absurd," but wading deeply into absurdist fiction, absurdist poetry, and black, Latin/x,...