Routledge Focus on Literature
Remapping Energopolitics: Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy and Sri Lankan Minor Writings
1st Edition
By Abhisek Ghosal
June 17, 2024
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 ...
Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing: “Italians” Interpreting Difference
1st Edition
By Jillian Loise Melchor
June 11, 2024
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
June 07, 2024
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...
Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others: Strategies for Outsiders
1st Edition
By Nandita Dinesh
May 28, 2024
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 ...
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, ...
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton
1st Edition
By Brian Russell Graham
May 27, 2024
Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake’s epic poem Milton. With the ...
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance
1st Edition
By Eirini Arvanitaki
May 14, 2024
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 ...
Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance
1st Edition
By Eirini Arvanitaki
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on the projection of the hero’s masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender. In the majority of these narratives the hero is often ...