Routledge Focus on Literature
Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters
1st Edition
By Barbara Abrams
May 27, 2025
The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to convents, workhouses or prisons were in most ...
Bosnian Authors in a European Window: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Keith Doubt
May 06, 2025
The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer, the novelist Meša Selimović to Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the novelist Ivo Andrić to Leo Tolstoy. The purpose is to move the appreciation of the writing of the most important Bosnian writers of the&...
Contemporary Irish Masculinities: Male Homosociality in Sally Rooney's Novels
1st Edition
By Angelos Bollas
May 06, 2025
By examining portrayals of male homosociality in Sally Rooney's novels, the book documents how male relationships are formed, challenged, and often disavowed and the profound negative effects this can have for the wellbeing of men. The book also highlights the importance of the sociocultural ...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Flags, Football, and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem
1st Edition
By Lisa Ferguson
April 14, 2025
This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless, since September 11, a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts, giving the ...
Supernatural Creatures in Arabic Literary Tradition
1st Edition
By Ahmed Al-Rawi
April 14, 2025
This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world. Utilizing a variety of old and new Arabic, English and French sources, the text explores creatures ...
Writing in-Between: Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing
1st Edition
By Nandita Dinesh
April 14, 2025
Writing in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book, Dinesh offers two central texts to ...
The Life of the Soul in Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Esther Fernández
April 07, 2025
Understanding the soul’s essence is an elusive pursuit, rendering any attempt to write about it akin to grasping at a mirage. As a sublime subject, the soul has captivated human thought for centuries. How do we approach it? How can we define its boundaries? This exploration offers an experimental ...
Imagination Besieged: Coloniality, Violence, and Feminism in “Mediterranean” Art and Literature
1st Edition
By Federica Bueti
March 05, 2025
Imagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a Mediterranean defined by loss, displacement, dispossession, violence, and its refusal. Drawing links and connections between Calabria, Athens, Ramallah, and Beirut, the book grapples with the legacies of histories of violence, criminality, and ...
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation
1st Edition
By William Franke
February 17, 2025
Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for ...
Poetic Thinking. Now
1st Edition
By Marko Pajević
December 19, 2024
This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is ‘what is being human?’, building on ‘thinking language’ and dialogical thinking, developing a poetological anthropology. It evokes political and social issues to demonstrate why ...
Milton and Music
1st Edition
By Seth Herbst
October 09, 2024
Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in ...
Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity: Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson
1st Edition
By Beverley Nadin
August 26, 2024
Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense. Observing Donaghy’s critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson’s systems of collective relation and “lyric unity”, this ...