Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction examines the early foundations, current trends, and future directions of the field of Latinx youth literature, media, and culture.
This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad employs canonical literary texts, and introduces new noncanonical works of fiction and autobiography, to uncover how nineteenth-century fiction and life writing engaged with the figure of the nomad as a problematic phenomenon during the Victorian age.
Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare's queer legacy on Emily Dickinson's work, particularly how this legacy has inflected Dickinson's queer world-making and her conception not only of gender and sexuality, but also of the lyric itself.
Against the backdrop of cultural exchange between China's Central Plains and Western Regions during the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, this book systematically examines the uneven-line lyrics of this significant era.
Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.
Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women's writing in the global context.
This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century.
First published in 1937, in Scepticism and Poetry the author argues that a theory of poetry is primarily a theory of the imagination; that the imagination which is present in the making of poetry is present also in all our knowledge of the world; and that its operation in poetry cannot therefore be understood if considered apart from the activity of the imagination in knowledge.
First published in 1937, in Scepticism and Poetry the author argues that a theory of poetry is primarily a theory of the imagination; that the imagination which is present in the making of poetry is present also in all our knowledge of the world; and that its operation in poetry cannot therefore be understood if considered apart from the activity of the imagination in knowledge.
This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century.
Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of 'home'.
This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives.
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.
Victorian Women's Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultural identity.
Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity.
The book addresses long-standing geographical debates on place, place-attachment and kin/aesthetics as well as the unique spatial-temporal properties of 'journeying'.
This examination of 32 ghost stories by 21 Victorian women writers defines a new genre, Feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure and its uncanny atmosphere of ambiguity to deploy competing narratives that seek to undermine patriarchy by simultaneously upholding and subverting its dominant myths.
This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.
The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.
Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated cultural phenomena, Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas (1550-1800) pursues a comprehensive approach to this field of study.
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures.
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures.
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature.
This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of Jose Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at the end of the Spanish colonial period.
The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942.
This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature.
Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated cultural phenomena, Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas (1550-1800) pursues a comprehensive approach to this field of study.
Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state.
The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st.
Spirituality for Leaders delves into the integration of spirituality within leadership practices and highlights how spiritual beliefs and practices can enhance ethical decision-making, organizational culture, and well-being.
Victorian Women's Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultural identity.
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's 'O' pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.
