Literature & Language 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. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

   An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

   By Michael Burke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Metaphor and Figurative Language

   Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

   By Alison Gibbons

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Intertextuality

   2nd Edition

   By Graham Allen

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Theories of intertextuality suggest that meaning in a text can only ever be understood in relation to other texts; no work stands alone but is interlinked with the tradition that came before it and the context in which it is produced. This idea of intertextuality is crucial to understanding...

   Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. Dialogue

   By Peter Womack

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Dialogue is a many-sided critical concept; at once an ancient philosophical genre, a formal component of fiction and drama, a model for the relationship of writer and reader, and a theoretical key to the nature of language. In all its forms, it questions ‘literature’, disturbing the singleness and...

   Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

    By John Casey

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge