Routledge Focus on Literature
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation
1st Edition
By William Franke
February 19, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...