Routledge Focus on Literature
Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing: “Italians” Interpreting Difference
1st Edition
By Jillian Loise Melchor
November 28, 2025
The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an ...
Dreams in Chinese Fiction: Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism
1st Edition
By Johannes D. Kaminski
November 28, 2025
This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and philosophical texts document an extensive spectrum of dream possibilities: starting with Zhuangzi’s eminent butterfly...
Remapping Energopolitics: Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy and Sri Lankan Minor Writings
1st Edition
By Abhisek Ghosal
November 28, 2025
Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic "unfolding" of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between "folds" and "fluxes" of energy in the context of ...
Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others: Strategies for Outsiders
1st Edition
By Nandita Dinesh
October 27, 2025
In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what it means for authors to write about experiences outside their own. This book focuses on writing as the act of witnessing when the writers themselves ...
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance
1st Edition
By Eirini Arvanitaki
October 27, 2025
This book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation within the genre’s formula and structure. Taking into account Giddens’s notion of ‘confluent’ love, this book argues that two forms of love exist within ...
Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks: From How to Catch a Star to Now
1st Edition
By Jade Dillon-Craig
October 16, 2025
Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks: From How to Catch a Star to Now examines semiotic, affective and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers’ postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach. This volume provides fresh insight into Jeffers’ iconotextual narratives through...
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 ...