Routledge Focus on Literature
Contemporary Irish Masculinities: Male Homosociality in Sally Rooney's Novels
1st Edition
By Angelos Bollas
May 05, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 ...
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 ...
A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad
1st Edition
By Iman Al-Attar
May 27, 2024
The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from inside, ...
Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap
1st Edition
By Charles F. Altieri
May 27, 2024
In today’s classrooms, educators specializing in literature and the arts have found themselves facing an escalating crisis. Most obviously, they encounter serious budget cuts, largely because students tend in increasing numbers to prefer majoring in disciplines that provide clear, practical ...
Rilke’s Hands: An Essay on Gentleness
1st Edition
By Harold Schweizer
May 27, 2024
This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the ...
Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed Tears
1st Edition
By Shawn Smith
May 27, 2024
This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning ...
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden
1st Edition
By Philip Goldfarb Styrt
May 27, 2024
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating figures in the contemporary world to Shakespearean characters, ...