Forthcoming Language & Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Picturebooks

   Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture

   Edited by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell, Julie McAdam

   The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of children’s literature. This book brings together the work of expert scholars from the UK, the USA and Europe to present original theoretical perspectives...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Shakespeare on Silent Film

   A Strange Eventful History

   By Robert Hamilton Ball

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Koromfe

   By John Rennison

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   This is the first detailed linguistic analysis of Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, providing data which sheds light on many previously unanswered questions about Koromfe and general linguistics....

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Ndyuka

   By George L. Huttar, Mary L. Huttar

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   The most thorough description of a creole language to date. It provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, giving a rich picture of the aspects of this radical creole....

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Wari

   By Daniel L. Everett, Barbara Kern

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered, and less than 2,000 known speakers of Wari and its related dialects...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Language Life in Japan

   Transformations and Prospects

   Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   Edited by Jolene Zigarovich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing...

   To Be Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Reissuing works originally published between 1968 and 1993, Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature offers a selection of scholarship covering the crossover of novels and the movies. Volumes on Shakespearean and Greek Tragedy films among others round this out to be an interesting compact...

    To Be Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge