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.
Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society: Breaking New Ground
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By María Amor Barros-del Río
July 19, 2024
Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature since the twentieth century and engages with the ongoing dialogue between contemporary Irish literature and society. Driven by the growing interest in ...
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose
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By Ian Hickey, Eugene O'Brien
June 28, 2024
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the ...
Irish Women's Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s
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By Red Washburn
May 27, 2024
This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s–2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. This volume analyzes political communiqués, petitions, news coverage, prison files, personal letters, poetry and short prose, and ...
The Writings of Padraic Colum: ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’
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By Pádraic Whyte, Keith O’Sullivan
May 10, 2024
This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. ...
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
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By Michaela Schrage-Früh, Tony Tracy
January 29, 2024
This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of ...
Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020
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By Deirdre Flynn, Ciara L. Murphy
January 29, 2024
Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers ...
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction
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By Jennifer Mooney
January 29, 2024
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature addresses the role of young adult (YA) Irish literature in responding and contributing to some of the most controversial and contemporary issues in today’s modern society: gender, and conflicting views of power, sexism and consent. This volume provides an...
James Joyce’s Mandala
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By Colm O’Shea
January 29, 2024
The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical ...
Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction: Towards a Queer Liminality
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By Amy Jeffrey
January 29, 2024
Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction offers an original and much-needed study of Irish Lesbian fiction. Evaluating a wide body of Irish lesbian fiction ranging from the Victorian era to the contemporary age, this book advocates for women writers who have been largely ignored in Irish literary history ...
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis
1st Edition
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By Andrew J. Auge, Eugene O'Brien
May 31, 2023
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon – ...
Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry
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By Ian Hickey
January 09, 2023
Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Covering Heaney’s work from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist, to his final collection, Human Chain, this volume analyses Heaney’s poetry ...