Literature & Culture

Treating hunger and disgust as political as well as aesthetic categories of experience, this book covers a wide range of genres including literature, cinema and performance art. It will be of value to anyone interested in the culture, politics, and subjectivity of embodiment, and scholars working wi..

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preo..

This theoretically challenging volume of essays describes the diversity of forms that life writing takes and highlights the extent to which autobiographical narrative is a powerful symbolic form and a genre of identity construction...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Explores the tradition of illustrated fiction in English, offering new approaches for its study and detailed discussions of a range of representative texts. Of value to students of literature, cultural studies, visual art and film...

Explores the tradition of illustrated fiction in English, offering new approaches for its study and detailed discussions of a range of representative texts. Of value to students of literature, cultural studies, visual art and film...

This book responds to the failures of human rights through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can expose human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Drawing on vulnerability theory, Moore develops a transnational feminist praxis for reading human rights and their viol..