Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination
1st Edition
By Peter D. Mathews
August 28, 2026
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers. Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative ...
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India
1st Edition
Edited
By Srirupa Chatterjee, Sharada Chigurupati
July 20, 2026
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective. It examines the literary musings of ...
Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt
July 20, 2026
This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence ...
Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction
1st Edition
By Ken Ireland
July 20, 2026
The omnipresence of narrative in our real-life experience and in the media world makes it a vital and relevant factor for study. This book presents an easily accessible guide to a series of key narrative topics, with concise entries in a transparent format of compact paragraphs allowing quick ...
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
1st Edition
By Laura Colombino
May 21, 2026
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters – their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and...
The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative
1st Edition
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By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
May 21, 2026
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including ...
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
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By Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske
May 21, 2026
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction seeks to provide an overview of the ways in which broadly understood contemporary fiction envisions, explores and engenders minds going beyond the classical models. The opening essay discusses the complex relationships between such innovative concepts of the...
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures: Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions
1st Edition
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By Petr Chalupský, Tereza Topolovská
May 12, 2026
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used as a theme, motif, metaphor, and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000. Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse...
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Badley, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir, Gitte Mose
December 26, 2025
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the Icelandic contemporary poet Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, b. 1962), who is considered by some to be Iceland’s most distinctive and multifaceted contemporary author. This collection ...
Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut
1st Edition
Edited
By Zbigniew Białas
November 10, 2025
When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010 and had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise, he remained ...
Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Ebury, Christin M. Mulligan
October 26, 2025
This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault ...
Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By George Kowalik
October 02, 2025
The phrase “post-postmodernism” has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean? Scholars have defined the term in various, often contradictory ways. Existing studies also rarely centralise race – an essential component in the transition from postmodern ...