Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism

   Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon Estok, Serpil Oppermann

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...

   Published May 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. All's Well, That Ends Well

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Gary Waller

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Manga's Cultural Crossroads

   Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Literature and the Human

   Theory, Criticism, Practice

   By Andy Mousley

   Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of fundamental questions of existence. This book re-affirms literature's existential value by developing a new...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Thinking Poetry

   Edited by Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall

   This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. Working at once with questions of form, literary...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. The People of Aristophanes (Routledge Revivals)

   A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy

   By Victor Ehrenberg

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Negotiating the Modern

   Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

   By Amit Ray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

   Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
10. Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers

    By Stuart Sim

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the...

    Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge