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Browse Literature books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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1. Arabic Poetry

   Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

   By Muhsin J. al-Musawi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
2. Arab Culture and the Novel

   Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

   By Muhammad Siddiq

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Arab Fiction

   Innovation from Rama to Yalu

   By Fabio Caiani

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary Arabic fiction, these authors remain largely unknown to non-Arab readers. Fabio Caiani examines the work of the Moroccan...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
4. Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes

   Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century

   By Esperanza Alfonso

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

   Edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini

   Series: Routledge Literature Companions

   With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars,The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume:...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
6. Everybody's America

   Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism

   By David Witzling

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Everybody’s America reassesses Pynchon’s literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white liberal culture. It charts the evolution of both these...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
7. A Life Adrift

   Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

   By Soeda Azembo, Michael Lewis (Translator)

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan. Azembo ...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
8. Travel Writing and Atrocities

   Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo

   By Robert Burroughs

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers,...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature

   By Christopher Dowd

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
10. Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

    Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s

    Edited by Laura Dabundo

    First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic,...

    Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge