Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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1. William Blake and the Digital Humanities

   Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media

   By Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   William Blake’s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

   The Idea of America

   Edited by Andrew Taylor, Áine Kelly

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

   Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

   Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature

   By Cameron Bushnell

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music’s conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the colonial...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, Ken Hiltner

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. With contributors engaging texts from...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain

   By Clare Hanson

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy

   Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

   By Daniel Tompsett

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic poetic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts found in the works of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Xenophanes. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Modern Orthodoxies

   Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

   By Lisa Mulman

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

   Pop Goth

   Edited by Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

    By Andrew Shail

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge