Routledge Literature Companions
About the Book Series
Field-defining volumes in new and exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners, or handy volumes for those already working in the field: summarising current scholarship, whilst pushing the boundaries of emerging trends they are must-have collections.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria McMillan
October 04, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, ...
The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Lanzendörfer
August 26, 2024
Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing ...
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, Magdalena Popiel
May 27, 2024
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international ...
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Gildersleeve
January 29, 2024
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers ...
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Howard Yuen Fung Choy
January 29, 2024
Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China. At the forefront of the “mythorealist” Chinese avant-garde and using absurdist humor and grotesque satire, Yan’s works have caught much critical attention not only in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong,...
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
1st Edition
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By Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Andrew Pepper
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging ...
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
1st Edition
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By W. Michelle Wang, Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, ...
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
1st Edition
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By Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Andrea Charise
May 31, 2023
The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Hall
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
1st Edition
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By Colin Davis, Hanna Meretoja
May 31, 2023
Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of ...
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah L. Madsen
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native ...
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing
1st Edition
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By Aroosa Kanwal, Saiyma Aslam
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today, from terrorism, religious extremism, fundamentalism, corruption,...