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Routledge Studies in Irish Literature


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Routledge Studies in Irish Literature offers a range of theoretical perspectives, focusing in greater part on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, and on a multi-racial, multi-cultural contemporary Irish society. This series makes full use of a range of contemporary theoretical perceptions, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, ecocritical, translational, gender/feminist, cultural materialist, postmodern, new materialist, queer theoretical and presentist observations, offering genuinely fresh insights into Irish writing. Questioning issues of the canon, high and popular cultures and the traditionally historical orientations of Irish studies, this series uses theory to liberate new meanings in terms of Irish writing, society and culture, and to show how such writing has been, and continues to be, an agent of change in that culture.

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John McGahern Ways of Looking

John McGahern: Ways of Looking

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By John Singleton
November 23, 2023

John McGahern (1934-2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s...

Irish Theatre Interrogating Intersecting Inequalities

Irish Theatre: Interrogating Intersecting Inequalities

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Eamonn Jordan
August 23, 2023

This book on modern and contemporary Irish Theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality. Individual chapters analyse property ownership and inheritance, wealth acquisition, employment ...

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis

1st Edition

Edited By Andrew J. Auge, Eugene O'Brien
May 31, 2023

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon – ...

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Hickey, Ellen Howley
April 28, 2023

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses. They reveal how Heaney adopts a ...

Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature Wounds of the Body and the Soul

Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature: Wounds of the Body and the Soul

1st Edition

Edited By Madalina Armie, Veronica Membrive
January 30, 2023

This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the ...

Haunted Heaney Spectres and the Poetry

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry

1st Edition

By Ian Hickey
January 09, 2023

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Covering Heaney’s work from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist, to his final collection, Human Chain, this volume analyses Heaney’s poetry ...

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

1st Edition

By Edward J. O’Shea
December 30, 2022

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by ...

The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Tradition, Society and Modernity

The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity

1st Edition

By Madalina Armie
December 30, 2022

In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world’s economic powers. ...

Irish Women's Prison Writing Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s

Irish Women's Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s

1st Edition

By Red Washburn
November 16, 2022

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s–2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. This volume analyzes political communiqués, petitions, news coverage, prison files, personal letters, poetry and short prose, and ...

James Joyce’s Mandala

James Joyce’s Mandala

1st Edition

By Colm O’Shea
July 29, 2022

The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical ...

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction

1st Edition

By Jennifer Mooney
July 21, 2022

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature addresses the role of young adult (YA) Irish literature in responding and contributing to some of the most controversial and contemporary issues in today’s modern society: gender, and conflicting views of power, sexism and consent. This volume provides an...

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

1st Edition

Edited By Deirdre Flynn, Ciara L. Murphy
July 18, 2022

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers ...

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