Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination
1st Edition
By Peter D. Mathews
August 28, 2026
Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers. Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative ...
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske
May 22, 2026
Unorthodox Minds in Contemporary Fiction seeks to provide an overview of the ways in which broadly understood contemporary fiction envisions, explores and engenders minds going beyond the classical models. The opening essay discusses the complex relationships between such innovative concepts of the...
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
1st Edition
By Laura Colombino
May 21, 2026
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro’s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters – their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and...
The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative
1st Edition
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By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
May 21, 2026
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including ...
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures: Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions
1st Edition
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By Petr Chalupský, Tereza Topolovská
May 13, 2026
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used as a theme, motif, metaphor, and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000. Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse...
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Badley, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir, Gitte Mose
December 26, 2025
Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the Icelandic contemporary poet Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, b. 1962), who is considered by some to be Iceland’s most distinctive and multifaceted contemporary author. This collection ...
Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut
1st Edition
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By Zbigniew Białas
November 10, 2025
When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010 and had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise, he remained ...
Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Ebury, Christin M. Mulligan
October 26, 2025
This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault ...
Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By George Kowalik
October 02, 2025
The phrase “post-postmodernism” has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean? Scholars have defined the term in various, often contradictory ways. Existing studies also rarely centralise race – an essential component in the transition from postmodern ...
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits
1st Edition
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By Claus-Peter Neumann, Pilar Royo-Grasa
September 29, 2025
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit. The 14 chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial,...
Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels
1st Edition
By Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
September 28, 2025
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of...
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
September 28, 2025
Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language ...