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12 Outside in the Teaching Machine Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, USA ’Outside in the Teaching Machine is a necessary guide to responsible reading and teaching. Whether literary texts such as Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Coetzee’s Foe, philosophy, or films, Spivak’s indefatigable in her questioning of contemporary pieties and in insisting that it is the study of culture that can help us chart the production of versions of reality.’ – Jean Franco, Columbia University, USA Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie’s controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly questions and deconstructs power structures where ever they operate. In doing so, she provides a voice for those who can not speak, proving that the true work of resistance takes place in the margins, Outside in the Teaching Machine. 2008: 216x138: 392pp Pb: 978-0-415-96482-1: £12.99 Je, Tu, Nous Towards a Culture of Difference Luce Irigaray, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France ‘These translations of Luce Irigaray’s works will make a powerful contribution to feminist scholarship in philosophy, political theory, psycho-analysis, linguistics and poetics. Theorists of sexual difference will find a serious and subtle challenge in Irigaray’s latest provocations.’ – Judith Butler 2007: 198x129: 144pp Pb: 978-0-415-77198-6: £9.99 Learning to Curse Essays in Early Modern Culture Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, USA ‘Greenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.’ – Virginia Quarterly Review 2007: 198x129: 246pp Pb: 978-0-415-77160-3: £11.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY ORDER NOW! LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY See Order Form in the centre of this catalogue A Theory of Literary Production Pierre Macherey Preface by Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester, UK ’What is at stake in this book is nothing less than a dramatically new way of approaching literature, one which in its unostentatious, low key way scandalously smashes a whole range of liberal humanist icons.’ – Terry Eagleton Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey’s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory. The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to a new audience, and argues persuasively for a totally new way of reading. As such, it is an essential work for anyone interested in the development of literary theory. 2006: 198x129: 392pp Pb: 978-0-415-37849-9: £13.99 Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Introduction by Nicholas Roe This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the ‘Lyrical Ballads’ as they appeared to Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems. 2005: 198x129: 410pp Pb: 978-0-415-35529-2: £9.99 +44 (0)1235 400524 Fax: +44 (0)20 7017 6699 Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series Series Editor: William E. Cain, Wellesley College, USA Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory encompasses works of literary criticism and cultural theory that challenge traditional approaches to the study of literature. Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit Caroline J. Smith, The George Washington University, USA Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit examines the way in which the popular women’s fiction genre of the late 1990s, known as chick lit, responds to women’s advice manuals such as women’s magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice manuals. 2007: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-95662-8: £50.00 eBook: 978-0-203-92914-8 NEW Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore Renee Dickinson, Radford University, USA This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period – Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore – by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. May 2009: 234x156: 144pp Hb: 978-0-415-99383-8: £60.00 NEW The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell Mary Hricko, Kent State University, USA This study examines the genesis of Chicago’s two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. Although Dreiser, Wright, and Farrell are more commonly thought of as Chicago writers, this study argues that Langston Hughes is a transitional, pivotal figure between the two periods. Through close readings and contextualization, the influence of Chicago writing on American literature – in such areas as realism and naturalism, as well as proletarian and ethnic fiction – becomes apparent. December 2008: 234x156: 274pp Hb: 978-0-415-95792-2: £60.00 www.routledge.com/literature
LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES 13 NEW Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture Marisa Parham, Amherst College, USA Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory – conscious and unconscious, individual and collective – often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences. 2008: 234x156: 165pp Hb: 978-0-415-99094-3: £60.00 NEW Misery’s Mathematics Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature Peter Balaam, Carleton College, USA Misery’s Mathematics reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers – including Emerson, Warner, Melville and Hawthorn – to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. January 2009: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-96807-2: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-50400-0 NEW Modern American Counter Writing Beats, Outriders, Ethnics A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Japan The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyzes three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar ‘outrider’ voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated ‘ethnic’ writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. August 2009: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-99811-6: £60.00 NEW The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge George Cusack, University of Oklahoma, USA This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these three authors in the years leading up to Ireland’s revolution against England. Furthermore, by focusing on a few plays written by each author in the context of the ongoing debates over Irish national identity which were taking place throughout Irish public life in this period, Cusack examines in more depth than previous studies the ways Yeats, Gregory, and Synge adapted conventional dramatic and linguistic forms to accommodate the conflicting claims of Irish nationalism. In so doing, he demonstrates the contribution these authors made not only to the development of Irish nationalism but also to modern and postcolonial literature as we understand them today. January 2009: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-99003-5: £60.00 Ruined by Design Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility Inger Sigrun Brodey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA ‘Inger Brodey has written a book of remarkable vitality about the fascination with ruins across eighteenth-century Europe. The book is both interdisciplinary and international. Instead of focusing on a single field like poetry, painting, or garden design in isolation, she uncovers their shared penchant for fragmentation which defines the culture of sensibility. Few authors writing on the fashion of ruins have penetrated this well-known phenomenon so deeply and intelligently.’ – Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, USA By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. 2008: 234x156: 298pp Hb: 978-0-415-98950-3: £60.00 NEW SERIES The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English Rajeev Patke and Philip Holden, National University of Singapore Series: Routledge Concise Histories The Routledge Concise History traces the development of the literature within its historical and cultural contexts, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across nations such as Thailand, China, Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. This handy guide: • interweaves text and context to provide an engaging and accessible overview of the area • introduces language use and variation across Southeast Asia with examples from speech, poetry and prose • traces the impact of historical, political and cultural events • engages with current debates about national consciousness, globalization and postmodernism • contains useful features such as a glossary, further reading section and chapter summaries. Direct and lucid, this book guides readers through the key topics and presents an original synthesis on the history and practice of the subject. It is the ideal starting point for students new to the subject or anyone wanting an overview of Southeast Asian Literature in English. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Southeast Asia: Historical Contexts 3. Linguistic Contexts 4. Malaysian and Singaporean Writing to 1965 5. Filipino Writing to 1965 6. Narrative Fiction 1965-90 7. Poetry 1965-90 8. Drama 1965-90 9. Expatriate, Diasporic and Minoritarian Writing 10. Contemporary Fiction 11. Contemporary Poetry 12. Contemporary Drama 13. From the Contemporary to the Future April 2009: 216x138: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-43568-0: £55.00 Pb: 978-0-415-43569-7: £15.99 BESTSELLER 2ND EDITION Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt, New York University, USA ’Imperial Eyes is a seminal work in the study of travel writing, demonstrating an inventive use of canonical and non-canonical sources from the archive of European travel writing, and from the colonial ‘contact zone’. Its critical insights are drawn eclectically from discourse analysis, gender criticism, postcolonialism, anthropology, and literary theory, drawn together with unflagging political energy. It remains a model of its kind.’ – Nigel Leask, Glasgow University, UK 2007: 234x156: 296pp Hb: 978-0-415-43816-2: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-43817-9: £19.99 eBook: 978-0-203-10635-8 E-mail: literature@routledge.com www.tandf.co.uk/eupdates www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk for more information for e-mail updates in your field eBooks are only available to order online
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