Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

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1. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

   The Syndrome Syndrome

   Edited by James Peacock, Tim Lustig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature

   Writing Architecture and the Body

   By Laura Colombino

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

   Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

   Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

   Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Beyond Cyberpunk

   New Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Reading Chuck Palahniuk

   American Monsters and Literary Mayhem

   Edited by Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

   Borders and Crossings

   Edited by Nicholas Monk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Lorna Piatti-Farnell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Food Studies and American literary scholarship, Piatti-Farnell investigates the significances of food and eating in American fiction, from 1980 to the present day. She argues that culturally-coded representations of the culinary illuminate...

   Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative

   Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk

   Edited by Paul Crosthwaite

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises;...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Literature after 9/11

    Edited by Ann Keniston, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and...

    Published June 6th 2010 by Routledge