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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation (Paperback)

Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the... more

Pre-Owned Routledge Contemporary South Asia The Other in South Asian Religion Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (Hardcover)

This book introduces the term otherism and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the other of the process of... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Contemporary Narratives of Ageing Illness Care (Paperback)

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider... more

Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature Co: Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction (Paperback)

This collection studies new developments in postmillennial popular romance fiction. The book discusses romance in different countries and explores how the genre has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends. The chapters focus on how... more

African Egalitarian Values and Indigenous Genres : A Comparative Approach to the Functional and Contextual Studies of Oromo National Literature in a Contemporary Perspective

African Egalitarian Values and Indigenous Genres : A Comparative Approach to the Functional and Contextual Studies of Oromo National Literature in a Contemporary Perspective more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation (Hardcover)

Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the... more

Culture & Conflict: Questioning the Canon: Counter-Discourse and the Minority Perspective in Contemporary German Literature (Paperback)

To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of great works ? To what extent do they adhere to or contest the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their... more

New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditi: An Introduction to the Gawain Poet (Paperback)

In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer s anonymous contemporary considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet s lesser known but no less brilliant works. In addition to... more

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on Identity Diaspora and Return in American Literature (Paperback)

This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction ethnography... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience (Paperback)

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the... more

Routledge Literature Companions The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (Paperback)

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the... more

Bound By Words - ما وسعني قوله: Arabic Essays on Literature and Contemporary Issues (Paperback)

Bound By Words is a powerful collection of essays that offers a thought-provoking perspective on some of the most contentious issues of our time. Written by a passionate and insightful author this book delves into topics ranging from politics and human... more

Catalan Studies in Culture and Linguistics: Character and Gender in Contemporary Catalan Literature (Hardcover)

The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today. This volume contributes to the... more

Hispanic Urban Studies: The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (Hardcover)

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and... more

Transnational Italian Cultures Reimagining the Italian South: Migration Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema Book 6 (Hardcover)

Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and cinema. The unprecedented perspective which presents... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature (Paperback)

Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf s texts and introduce them... more

Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture: Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century presents the rich diversity of Jewish life from perspectives that center lesbian and queer Jewish feminist people and issues. Blending scholarship with poetry memoir and other genres it... more

Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)

Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel Midnight s Children is regularly cited as the Booker of Bookers and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel The... more

Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Paperback)

Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel Midnight s Children is regularly cited as the Booker of Bookers and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel The... more

Bloomsbury Handbooks: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (Hardcover)

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective this handbook provides students researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of... more

Literature After Postmodernism: Reconstructive Fantasies (Paperback)

Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and... more

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature: Landscape in Middle English Romance (Paperback)

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of... more

Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies: Borders Territories and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada (Paperback)

Borders Territories and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies space and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing... more

Pre-Owned The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis Literature Film (Paperback 9780804747776) by Alessia Ricciardi

9780804747776. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 266. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 266 p. Cultural Memory in the Present. The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass (Paperback)

This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies... more

Pre-Owned A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England (Paperback 9780719083259) by Christina Luckyj

9780719083259. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources from domestic conduct guides to emblem books this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature. more

Introducing Ethnic Studies: Asian American Literary Studies (Paperback)

This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany Japan Singapore Spain and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (Paperback)

This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels theatre poetry creative non-fiction documentary films and performance... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition (Paperback)

This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement local and global cultures human rights abuses and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the... more

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children s Literature: British Children s Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914 (Paperback)

The golden age of children s literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and trade of commodities. The first book-length study to situate children s literature within the consumer culture of this period... more

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children s Literature: British Children s Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses (Hardcover)

Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children s books visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children s... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Connecting Literature and Science (Paperback)

This book presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities. The author a professional chemist seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that... more

Pre-Owned Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts Critical Perspectives (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780748637744) by Michael Gardiner Graeme MacDonald Niall O Gallagher

9780748637744. Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 288. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studies Using a comparative... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature: Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature (Paperback)

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes multiple dimensions quantum entanglement and... more

Routledge Studies in World Literatures a Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender Ecology and Literature (Paperback)

Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender Ecology and Literature provides guidance in navigating some of the most pressing dangers we face today. Science fiction helps us face problems that threaten the very existence of... more

Law & Literature: Law and Justice in Literature Film and Theater: Nordic Perspectives (Hardcover)

This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature... more

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children s Literature: Ethics in British Children s Literature: Unexamined Life (Hardcover)

Featuring close readings of selected poetry visual texts short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British... more

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children s Literature: The Dark Matter of Children s Fantastika Literature (Hardcover)

Following the material turn in the humanities this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children s fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement which... more