Literature & Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

   Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

   By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Global Literary Theory

   An Anthology

   Edited by Richard Lane

   Global Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory. The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Section Introductions and each piece...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

   Idea, Nation, State

   By Cara Cilano

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. The American Civil War

   A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Ian Frederick Finseth

   The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions. Now in...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Reading the Early Modern Dream

   The Terrors of the Night

   Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Reading Beyond the Book

   The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

   By Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance

   Normans and Saxons

   By Dominique Battles

   Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

   This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

   By Paul Clements

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring...

   Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Life Writing

    Memory and Identity in Global Context

    Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

    Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge