Over 300 anthologies of womens short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book....More info...
LInnocente (1892) is a psychological novel by the renowned Italian author Gabriele DAnnunzio. Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a DAnnunzios masterpiece, maintaining his lyrical rhythms and rich imagery, while...More info...
This book presents and engages the world building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions....More info...
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribu...More info...
It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct this connection through the genealogical study of both little-known historical materials and ubiquitous materials...More info...
First published in 1901 and this English translation in 1970, Footprints in the Snow is one of the most popular novels in modern Japan. It is the story of the struggle of a penniless Japanese boy Shintaro Kikuchi, for education and emancipation....More info...
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf st...More info...
Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention)....More info...
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only investigating the so-called Theatre of the Absurd, but wading deeply into absurdist fiction, absurdist poetry, and black, Latin/...More info...
This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction and is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science...More info...
Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approach...More info...
In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballards fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the limited present. This book also positions the transgressive private mythologies of Ballards character...More info...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction....More info...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to stude...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Jul-2023, Publisher: DC Comics, ISBN-13: 9781003638049)
DC s deadliest assassin gets a major upgrade, a new mission, and a new partner Black Canary? Slade Wilson joins a secret organization to take down the biggest villain!...More info...
This is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China....More info...
This book examines utopian/dystopian fictions enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital so...More info...
The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future....More info...
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...More info...
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...More info...
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts influence in contemporary times....More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Nov-2021, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780367855642)
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master, Stanisaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies....More info...
This scholarly edition of Du Boiss 1770 novel, Theodora, A Novel, introduces readers to a unique voice in womens writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long....More info...
Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: biofiction, bioimagination, and biodiscourse to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology....More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Sep-2021, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429345357)
This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are construct...More info...
Connecting William Gibsons relational model of gestalt psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthuma...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Jul-2021, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003058328)
This book presents a systematic study of Indian Womens Science Fiction. It critically analyses the works of Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh....More info...
Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels....More info...
This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and childrens fablesas responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860....More info...
This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic...More info...
Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of women and of nature, driven by patriarchal power and ideologies....More info...
By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitabl...More info...
In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans....More info...
This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters such as Macbeth, Othello, Okonkwo, and Ezeulu....More info...
This work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze...More info...
In this book Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction....More info...
Taking a chronological approach, this volume covers the main periods of Canadian science fiction and fantasy from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century....More info...
In this book, we provide a a number of accounts, with examples, of how we might consider the Fantastic as a mode of writing with both historical depth and immediate contemporary relevance....More info...
Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets the Regimethe dangerous social and economic orthodoxies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism....More info...
Surrealism and the Gothic argues for the determinative influence of the gothic of the gothic novel itself and of ideas strongly associated with the gothic (insanity, incarceration, the accursed outsider, magic, etc.) upon both the formation and su...More info...
From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary....More info...
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study....More info...
Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction explores the multiple ways in which narrative can radically defamiliarize our bodily experience and bridge the gap with cosmic realities....More info...
This book provides an analysis of North Korean graphic novels, discussing the ideals they promote and the tensions within those ideals, and examining the reception of graphic novels in North and South Korea and beyond....More info...
With contributions from a distinguished group of world-builders, including academics, writers and designers, this anthology of essays describes the process and discusses the nature of subcreation and the construction of worlds....More info...
In The Secret Origins of Comics Studies, todays leading comics scholars turn back a page to reveal the founding figures dedicated to understanding comics art. Edited by comics scholars Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan, this collection provides an i...More info...
