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Postcolonial Pacific Writing

Representations of the Body

By Michelle Keown

This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29957-2 (Routledge)

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Culture and the Real

Theorizing Cultural Criticism

By Catherine Belsey

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities?…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25289-8 (Routledge)

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Popular Fiction

The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

By Ken Gelder

In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35647-3 (Routledge)

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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Edited by Peter Hunt

Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education,…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29053-1 (Routledge)

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Polemic

Critical or Uncritical

Edited by Jane Gallop

What is criticism supposed to do? Is polemic a legitimate face of criticism, or simply its excess? What does it mean to read critically or…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97228-4 (Routledge)

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Literature, Culture and Society

By Andrew Milner

As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favour…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30785-7 (Routledge)

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Medieval Rhetoric

A Casebook

Edited by Scott D. Troyan

This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. Ten original essays examine the ways in which contemporary readers and…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97163-8 (Routledge)

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The Location of Culture

By Homi Bhabha

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33639-0 (Routledge)

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Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature

Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers

By Anne Lundin

In this pioneering historical study, Anne Lundin argues that schools, libraries, professional organizations, and the media together create and influence the constantly changing canon of…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3841-3 (Routledge)

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Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature

A Casebook

By Albrecht Classen

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97101-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
By Joseph R. McCleary
To be published January 9th 2009

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
To be published January 30th 2009

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
By Karen Leick
To be published March 15th 2009

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
By Hania A.M. Nashef
To be published March 25th 2009

Translation under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic
By Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
To be published April 29th 2009

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