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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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