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  1. Modern Orthodoxies

    Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

    By Lisa Mulman

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

    Pop Goth

    Edited by Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art...

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

    By Andrew Shail

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

    By Danny Méndez

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...

    Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge

  5. The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

    Performing Identity

    By Caroline Brown

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

    The Alchemical Literary Imagination

    By Kathleen Renk

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

    By Bryan Walpert

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of...

    Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
    Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon Estok, Serpil Oppermann
    To Be Published May 24th 2013
  2. Modern Orthodoxies: Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century
    By Lisa Mulman
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
    Edited by Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, Jopi Nyman
    To Be Published June 13th 2013
  4. Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day
    Edited by Carl Thompson
    To Be Published July 31st 2013
  5. Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal
    Edited by Christopher Eagle
    To Be Published September 25th 2013
  6. The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film
    By Maria Beville
    To Be Published September 30th 2013
  7. Class and the Making of American Literature: Created Unequal
    Edited by Andrew Lawson
    To Be Published December 14th 2013
  8. Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature
    By Elana Gomel
    To Be Published January 14th 2014
  9. Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives of the End of the World
    Edited by Monica Germana, Aris Mousoutzanis
    To Be Published January 30th 2014
  10. Trauma in Contemporary Literature
    Edited by Marita Nadal, Mónica Calvo
    To Be Published February 27th 2014

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