Routledge Focus on Literature
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall
1st Edition
By Callum Fraser
December 23, 2024
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers. Specifically, the book examines the way in which these writers use the Fall, and the notion of ‘fallenness’—as ...
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 ...
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism
1st Edition
By Clenora Hudson (Weems)
December 17, 2024
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short, but powerful book, advocating synergy via unity/collectivity as a panacea for all societal ills. It discusses the Africana Womanism theory - an authentic family centered concept for all women of African descent - as a grid upon which to erect the...
The Sagas of Icelanders: An Introduction to All Forty Sagas with Summaries
1st Edition
By Annette Lassen
December 06, 2024
This book offers an accessible and concise introduction to the sagas of Icelanders, perfect for both general and academic readers. Authored by a recognized expert, it immerses readers in the sagas’ world, exploring their cultural and historical context. The book surveys major themes such as belief ...
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination
1st Edition
By Eva Pelayo Sañudo
November 29, 2024
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005). The study proposes the...
Reading Modernity, Modernism and Religion Today: Spinoza and Van Gogh
1st Edition
By Patrick Grant
October 30, 2024
Feelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today’s secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Émile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a concept this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity. ...
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 ...
Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book
1st Edition
By Julia Pond
September 25, 2024
In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height of western Modernism, this scholarly text ...
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 ...
Tolkien and the Kalevala
1st Edition
By Jyrki Korpua
August 19, 2024
This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. J. R. R. Tolkien, an Oxford ...
Essays on The Glass Menagerie: Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion
1st Edition
By Tania Chakravertty
August 13, 2024
This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams’s wonderful play with the sense of time and shows ...
Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition: Suspicion, Trust, and Dialogue
1st Edition
By Inge van de Ven, Lucie Chateau
July 02, 2024
In our information age, deciding what sources and voices to trust is a pressing matter. There seems to be a surplus of both trust and distrust in and on platforms, both of which often amount to having your mindset remain the same. Can we move beyond this dichotomy toward new forms of ...