Language & Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

   Edited by Ruth Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Postcolonial Audiences

   Readers, Viewers and Reception

   Edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter, Gemma Robinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Studying English Literature and Language

   An Introduction and Companion, 3rd Edition

   By Rob Pope

   Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory

   Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

   Edited by Monika Fludernik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with...

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
5. Hinges

   Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination

   By Grace Mazur

   Grace Dane Mazur uses the idea of the hinge to illuminate real and metaphysical thresholds in fiction, poetry, myth, and ordinary life. From ancient narratives of Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Parmenides, and Orpheus, to modern works by Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty, the exploration of the Other...

   Published November 7th 2010 by A K Peters/CRC Press
6. Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory

   Russian Literary Mnemonics

   By Mikhail Gronas

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry

   By Suzanne Bailey

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention,...

   Published December 22nd 2009 by Routledge
8. Style and Ideology in Translation

   Latin American Writing in English

   By Jeremy Munday

   Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

   Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or ‘voice,’ of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film. Existing models of stylistic analysis, supported at times by computer-assisted...

   Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
9. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory

   Edited by David HERMAN, Manfred JAHN, Marie-Laure RYAN

   The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific...

   Published December 20th 2004 by Routledge
10. The Language of Fiction

    Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel, 2nd Edition

    By David Lodge

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of...

    Published September 11th 2002 by Routledge