Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Epic

   By Paul Innes

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Stubborn Structure (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays on Criticism and Society

   By Northrop Frye

   First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Revisiting the Poetic Edda

   Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend

   Edited by Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington

   Series: Routledge Medieval Casebooks

   Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

   The Politics of the Turkish Novel

   By Erdag Göknar

   Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Imagining the Pagan Past

   Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

   By Marion Gibson

   Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse,...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Judie Newman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
8. Youth of Darkest England

   Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

   By Troy Boone

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Education for Fullness

   A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

   By H. B. Mukherjee

   Rabindranath Tagore is remembered today chiefly as a poet, and his fame as a poet has often eclipsed his great contributions to other fields of literature and life — especially education. Tagore pondered deeply on the fundamental problems of education — aims, curriculum, method, discipline, values...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire

    From Augustus to Justinian

    By Albrecht Dihle

    Professor Dihle sees the Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D. as an organic progression. He builds on Schlegel's observation that art, customs and political life in classical antiquity are inextricably entwined and therefore should not be examined...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge