Literary studies: general books

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory,...  Read More >>

Bringing plastic and concrete - two of the contemporary age's most significant materials - together, this book uses...  Read More >>

Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want...  Read More >>

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic – rather than historical – approach to ancient Greek oracular texts,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures....  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration...  Read More >>

This anthology showcases poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original New York School poets: Frank O’Hara,...  Read More >>

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight—with a feminist focus—into the often overlooked...  Read More >>

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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across...  Read More >>

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

A Salon-in-Exile explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first...  Read More >>

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African,...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

This book uncovers how knowledge was transmitted and transformed in 18th-century Britain, using digital tools to...  Read More >>

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel...  Read More >>

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh...  Read More >>

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>