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1. Literature and Globalization

   A Reader

   Edited by Liam Connell, Nicky Marsh

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   '[I] wonder how we have managed without such a text.' – Rita Raley, UCSB, USA Globalization has had a huge impact on thinking across the humanities, redefining the understanding of fields such as communication, culture, politics, and literature. This groundbreaking Reader is the first to...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
2. The History of Reading

   Edited by Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   The History of Reading offers an engaging, accessible overview from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of ‘book clubs’. Divided into seven sections, each with a useful introduction, this Reader: summarises the main debates and perspectives shaping the field introduces key...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
3. Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period

   Greek Literature

   Edited by Gregory Nagy

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   Published December 28th 2001 by Routledge
4. The Cold Counsel

   The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

   Edited by Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family...

   Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature

   Edited by Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, the editors Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh demonstrate that these singular...

   Published August 14th 1996 by Routledge
6. Dangerous Voices

   Women's Laments and Greek Literature

   By Gail Holst-Warhaft

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation was introduced to curb these laments in antiquity. An investigation of laments ranging from New Guinea to Greece suggests...

   Published June 14th 1995 by Routledge