Comparative literature

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes.

How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization?

Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers.

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision-making.

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser's long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire.

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'.

Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age.

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes.

The Fame of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras postumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700.

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c.

A Greek writer and his bad English, Gogol Bordello and a city that does not remember everything.

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics.

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China.

This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova.

Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient to modern times, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, literary, and secular culture.

Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare.

This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself.

ENGEver since Karl Jaspers's axial age paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture.

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics.

This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself.

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare.

First published in 1990, The Practice of Questioning integrates theory, research, and practice from a wide range of disciplines, with a strong emphasis on practical application.

First published in 1990, The Practice of Questioning integrates theory, research, and practice from a wide range of disciplines, with a strong emphasis on practical application.

First Published in 1974, Roads to Consciousness has for its protagonist the idealistic truth-seeking young man who sees that men are evil and righteously condemns the ways of this wicked world, but then falls into cynicism and despair when he discovers at last that he too is a man, and he too is evil.

First published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline.

First Published in 1974, Roads to Consciousness has for its protagonist the idealistic truth-seeking young man who sees that men are evil and righteously condemns the ways of this wicked world, but then falls into cynicism and despair when he discovers at last that he too is a man, and he too is evil.

This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change.

Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century

This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change.

This book examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three of the most important Latin American women poets, namely Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos, of the twentieth century.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad employs canonical literary texts, and introduces new noncanonical works of fiction and autobiography, to uncover how nineteenth-century fiction and life writing engaged with the figure of the nomad as a problematic phenomenon during the Victorian age.

Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century

This book examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three of the most important Latin American women poets, namely Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos, of the twentieth century.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad employs canonical literary texts, and introduces new noncanonical works of fiction and autobiography, to uncover how nineteenth-century fiction and life writing engaged with the figure of the nomad as a problematic phenomenon during the Victorian age.

First published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline.

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of 'home'.

Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality.

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.

When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer.

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality.

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures.

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures.

This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.