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.
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 ...
Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Hickey, Ellen Howley
October 08, 2024
Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses. They reveal how Heaney adopts a ...
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey
1st Edition
By Edward J. O’Shea
August 26, 2024
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by ...
The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity
1st Edition
By Madalina Armie
August 26, 2024
Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024 In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the ...
Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature: Wounds of the Body and the Soul
1st Edition
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By Madalina Armie, Veronica Membrive
August 26, 2024
This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the ...
Irish Women's Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s
1st Edition
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 ...
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...