Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Charlie Kaufman’s Moebius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Colm O’Shea
July 20, 2026
Charlie Kaufman's Moebius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman's diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady. Each chapter builds on a theological or metaphysical idea, drawing from thinkers as diverse as Kierkegaard, Kafka, ...
Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts: Gastrocriticism
1st Edition
By Anke Klitzing
July 15, 2026
Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts is the first dedicated guide to gastrocriticism – an emerging interdisciplinary, critical framework for investigating food, drinks, and foodways in literature, film and other imaginative texts. Organised into three comprehensive sections,...
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
June 19, 2026
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas explores the profound connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression across generations of thinkers and writers. In poetry, Erasmus Darwin attempts to decode the mysteries of botany and geology, while through ...
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannah Grayson
June 11, 2026
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis. This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of ‘resilience’ and ‘crisis’. ...
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Sommer
May 22, 2026
Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and the digital humanities to examine the past, ...
Beat Film, Beat Writers
1st Edition
By David Stephen Calonne
May 21, 2026
Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally...
Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun
May 21, 2026
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands. While ...
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
1st Edition
By Mads Larsen
May 21, 2026
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional ...
A New Approach to Reading Videogames as Story: Virtual Cathedrals in an Age of Decadence
1st Edition
By Thomas Rowland
January 26, 2026
This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives. This methodology pulls from phenomenological and deconstructionist roots, informed by medieval studies and the history of ...
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film
1st Edition
By Tony Fabijančić
December 31, 2025
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries. Every work of art that involves anamorphosis invites the viewer or reader to decrypt its distortional elements, resolve confusion and seek understanding, ...
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought
1st Edition
By Robert Hughes
December 26, 2025
Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects ...
Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty
1st Edition
By Mitchell Gauvin
December 25, 2025
Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric and call for increased policing of borders. Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty looks back to a ...