Literary/Critical Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Epic

   By Paul Innes

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. All's Well, That Ends Well

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Gary Waller

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Paul Gilroy

   By Paul Williams

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and consumer...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Media Authorship

   Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature

   By Frederick Aldama

   Series: Routledge Concise Histories of Literature

   The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the works...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

   Eating the Avant-Garde

   By Michel Delville

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cinema and Language Loss

   Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image

   By Tijana Mamula

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. Combining insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and film theory,...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Frantz Fanon

   By Pramod Nayar

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

    Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge