Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Irish Literature offers a range of theoretical perspectives, focusing in greater part on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, and on a multi-racial, multi-cultural contemporary Irish society. This series makes full use of a range of contemporary theoretical perceptions, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, ecocritical, translational, gender/feminist, cultural materialist, postmodern, new materialist, queer theoretical and presentist observations, offering genuinely fresh insights into Irish writing. Questioning issues of the canon, high and popular cultures and the traditionally historical orientations of Irish studies, this series uses theory to liberate new meanings in terms of Irish writing, society and culture, and to show how such writing has been, and continues to be, an agent of change in that culture.
Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy: Feminist Myths of Monstrosity
1st Edition
By Salomé Paul
July 30, 2025
Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates Carr’s transformation not only of the narrative ...
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers
1st Edition
By Cassandra S. Tully de Lope
July 30, 2025
This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology. The study of language performance through literary analysis and corpus studies will enable readers to approach literary texts from both quantitative and ...
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime
1st Edition
By Maria McGarrity
July 30, 2025
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland’s artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature. A concern for and anxiety about the primitive persists ...
The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: Toward Heaven
1st Edition
By Edward T. Duffy
July 30, 2025
The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry is a critical study of the poet's later work. While exploring his practice as a translator, it also traces his increasing preoccupation with the possibilities and conditions of translation in the theological sense of being lifted up in spirit. To the...
Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre: Emerging from the Silence
1st Edition
Edited
By Clara Mallon, Salomé Paul
July 24, 2025
Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women, historically and presently. Addressing professional and community theatre productions, from both textual and performative perspectives, this volume focuses on works of...
Tom Murphy’s Theatre of Everyday Space
1st Edition
By Moonyoung Hong
May 09, 2025
By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most important modern playwrights. Ireland’s experience of rapid modernisation, emigration, and globalisation is vividly captured in his plays, challenging generic notions of space, place, and the nation. In ...
Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
1st Edition
By Eugene O'Brien
May 05, 2025
Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard’s texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular ...
Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing
1st Edition
By Ian Tan
May 05, 2025
Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation ...
John McGahern: Ways of Looking
1st Edition
By John Singleton
April 13, 2025
John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s...
Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling
1st Edition
By Paul Delaney
March 27, 2025
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. More specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, engaging with the forces that have helped to shape the ...
Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By David McKinney
December 27, 2024
This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009–2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’...
Irish Theatre: Interrogating Intersecting Inequalities
1st Edition
By Eamonn Jordan
December 18, 2024
This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance; wealth acquisition; employment ...