Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Books

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1. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction

   By Michaela Mahlberg

   This book presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. The analysis begins with clusters -- i.e. repeated sequences of words -- as pointers to local textual functions, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80014-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

   By Theo D'Haen

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49589-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader

   Edited by TIMOTHY CORRIGAN

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56010-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Postcolonial Gramsci

   Edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik BHATTACHARYA

   The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors attempt to situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, The Postcolonial Gramsci endeavors to reassess the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87481-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Literary Adaptation

   By Simone Murray

   All around us, adaptation increasingly figures as the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies throughout its history has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-99903-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Native American Writing

   Edited by A. Robert Lee

   As scholarly work on and around the literary output of Native Americans flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to help users make sense of the subject’s vast literature and ...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58895-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Dialogue

   By Peter Womack

   Dialogue is a form that has been used in varying ways at different cultural moments, adapting to the needs of the time and of its speakers. Playful and allusive, it has often been the mode of expression for eccentrics and provocateurs, but can also claim to be the original format for Western...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-32922-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Satire

   By John Gilmore

   What is Satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of Satire from classical models...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48082-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian-English Literature: Writing Violence and Empire

   By Alex Tickell

   This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcutta "Black Hole," the anti-thuggee campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 rebellion, and anti-colonial...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87715-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Intertextuality, 2nd Edition

    By Graham Allen

    Graham Allen's Intertextuality follows all of the major moves in the term's history, and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in: structuralism post-structuralism deconstruction postcolonialism marxism feminism psychoanalytic theory With a wealth of illuminating examples from...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-59694-7 | Paperback (Routledge)