Routledge Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Literature

Responding to a profound technological paradigm shift, The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature, edited by Will Slocombe and Genevieve Liveley, offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary roadmap to the intersection of artificial intelligence and literary arts. Comprising 30 chapters contributed by leading scholars across digital humanities, computer science, narratology, ethics, and literary studies, the volume systematically interrogates how AI transforms textual production and criticism. The handbook covers key thematic domains: redefining concepts of authorship and creativity in the age of Large Language Models and Generative AI, analyzing voice and perspective in machine-generated texts, exploring ethical and legal issues regarding intellectual property, and establishing new computational approaches to narratology. It serves as a vital critical intervention that bridge-builds between humanities and technical sciences to evaluate the future of human storytelling.

It serves as an indispensable reference handbook, providing scholars and readers with cutting-edge theoretical frameworks to understand how AI tools redefine authorial agency, creative writing, and narrative theory.

Ideal for professors, graduate researchers, and students in literary studies, digital humanities, computer science, narratology, ethics, media studies, and authors interested in the creative potential and challenges of AI.