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61. Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

    Upstaging Dictatorship

    By Ana Elena Puga

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
62. Beyond Cyberpunk

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
63. 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: links...

    Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
64. Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)

    A Documentary Record

    By Ioan Williams

    The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
65. Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Ioan Williams

    First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
66. English Tragedy before Shakespeare

    The Development of Dramatic Speech

    By Wolfgang Clemen

    First published in English 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in...

    Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
67. Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

    By Jack L. Siler

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
68. Both Sides of the Circle

    The Autobiography of Christmas Humphreys

    By Christmas Humphreys

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1978, Christmas Humphrey’s autobiography presents the fascinating history of a life rich and varied in both private and in public. Spanning seven decades it touches on many events of historical interest in which he was personally involved. Among them the abdication of Edward VIII...

    Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
69. An Accident of Hope

    The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

    By Dawn M. Skorczewski

    In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing...

    Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
70. The Poetry of Radio

    The Colour of Sound

    By Seán Street

    This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge