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31. The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

    Edited by Karen J. Renner

    The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
32. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

    By Randall Martin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
33. Orality and Literacy

    30th Anniversary Edition

    By Walter J. Ong

    Series: New Accents

    Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year –...

    Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
34. Temporalities

    By Russell West-Pavlov

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of...

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
35. Sparing the Child

    Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust

    By Hamida Bosmajian

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist....

    Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
36. Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature

    Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers

    By Anne Lundin

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of children's literature. Lundin examines the circumstances out of which the canon emerges, and its effect on the...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
37. Voices of the Other

    Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context

    By Roderick McGillis

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism.The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism,...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
38. The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book

    By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined...

    Published September 1st 2012 by Routledge
39. The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature

    Edited by Suzanne Bost, Frances Aparicio

    Series: Routledge Literature Companions

    Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration. The Routledge Companion to...

    Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
40. The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

    The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

    By Stephen M. Levin

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered"...

    Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge