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Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature


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This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking a comparative approach to literary studies, this series visits the relationship of literature and language alongside a variety of interdisciplinary and transnational topics. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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Convergence of East-West Poetics Williams’s Negotiation with the Chinese Landscape Tradition

Convergence of East-West Poetics: Williams’s Negotiation with the Chinese Landscape Tradition

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By Zhanghui Yang
August 15, 2024

The present book examines Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing. Focusing on Walliams’s landscape modes of landscape with(without) infused emotions, the book builds a linkage between their interactions with Chinese landscape ...

The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature A Self-Constructed Fantasy

The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature: A Self-Constructed Fantasy

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By Elena Anastasaki
May 27, 2024

This study addresses the question of artistic identity and the myth of the artist as it has been shaped by the artists themselves. While the term artist is to be understood in a broad sense, the focus of this study is the literature of the Romantic tradition. Identity is largely perceived as a ...

Women Writing Trauma in the Global South A Study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy

Women Writing Trauma in the Global South: A Study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy

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By Annemarie Pabel
May 27, 2024

Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Trauma in the Global South dismantles conceptual shortcomings and problematic imbalances at the core of existing theorizations around psychological trauma. The global constellation ...

The Literary Beach History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

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Edited By Carsten Meiner, Katrine Helene Andersen
May 08, 2024

As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a ...

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story Italian and English Perspectives

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives

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By Valeria Taddei
April 10, 2024

The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality. Yet the critical use of the concept is still contested, complicated by the fact that in many modernist works exceptional moments are ...

Xueqin and Xakespeare Reading The Story of the Stone through Hamlet

Xueqin and Xakespeare: Reading The Story of the Stone through Hamlet

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By Judith Forsyth
March 19, 2024

This monograph offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in Five Acts. The book builds on the superlative David Hawkes/John ...

Transformative Fictions World Literature and Personal Change

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change

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By Daniel Just
January 29, 2024

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the formation of transnational literary and pedagogical canons, and the role of ...

Mystic Modernity Tagore and Yeats

Mystic Modernity: Tagore and Yeats

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By Ashim Dutta
September 25, 2023

This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply ...

Bengal and Italy Transcultural Encounters from the Mid-19th to the Early 21st Century

Bengal and Italy: Transcultural Encounters from the Mid-19th to the Early 21st Century

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Edited By Paromita Chakravarti, Mario Prayer
July 07, 2023

The ten chapters collected in this book manifest the current global interest in trans-border dialogues and trace the origins and development of Italian and Bengali internationalisms in the period from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Despite having differing political statuses and lacking a ...

Children of Globalization Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

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By Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
May 31, 2023

Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, ...

Family Fictions and World Making Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era

Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era

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By Sreya Chatterjee
May 31, 2023

Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a ...

Holocaust Narratives Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations

Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations

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By Thorsten Wilhelm
May 31, 2023

Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is ...

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