Postmodernism Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

   The Syndrome Syndrome

   Edited by James Peacock, Tim Lustig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature

   Novel Listening

   By Justin St. Clair

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Life of Ezra Pound (Routledge Revivals)

   By Noel Stock

   First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of ‘the modern movement’, a friend and helper...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

   Edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale

   Series: Routledge Companions

   What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Feminine Fictions

   Revisiting the Postmodern

   By Patricia Waugh

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Abjection, Melancholia and Love

   The Work of Julia Kristeva

   Edited by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies. Topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

   The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

   By Peta Mitchell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction

   By Ursula Kluwick

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial....

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Pynchon and the Political

    By Samuel Thomas

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge