Forthcoming Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mahabharata Now

   Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics

   Edited by Arindam Chakrabarti, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

   Discussing the contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata, this volume imaginatively re-interprets the classic in the light of pre-modern Indian aesthetic codes, as well as Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science....

   To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge India
3. Generating the Hybrid City

   Women Writers Create Urban Space

   By Isabel Carrera Suárrez

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book is a study of the representation of the global, postcolonial, hybrid city by women writers in English. Focusing specifically on London, Toronto, and Singapore as examples of different positions in the postcolonial process, Suarez grounds her discussion on theories of the global city;...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation

   Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness

   By Layla AbdelRahim

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Linguistics & Novel

   Series: New Accents

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. African City Textualities

   Edited by Ranka Primorac

   The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Nathaniel Hawthorne

   Edited by Donald J. Crowley

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Literature Politics & Theory

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Samuel Beckett

   Edited by R. Federman, L. Graver

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. W.H. Auden

    Edited by Dr John Haffenden, John Haffenden

    This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge