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  • Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

    by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Neil Murphy, Anne Fogarty, Michelle Wang, Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak, Mary M. McGlynn, Lianghui LI, Adel Cheong0, Sylvie Mikowski1, Katherine O'Callaghan2, Michael G Cronin3, Molly Ferguson4, Deirdre Flynn5, Seán Golden6, Margarita Estévez-Saá7, Eoghan Smith8, Christine Cusick9, Gerry Smyth0, Hedwig Schwall1, Graham Matthews2, Joseph Valente3, Patricia Malone4, Jack Fennell5, Jennifer Mooney6, Keith O’Sullivan7, Brian Cliff8, Ondrej Pilný9, Hana Zahradníková0, Kersti Powell1, Paula Murphy2 ...
    Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization ... Read more

    $50.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

    by Professor Gerry Smyth ...
    In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, environment and technology. In this book, cultural historian Gerry Smyth focuses on English genre fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring the ways in which popular novelists of ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce

    Joyces Noyces

    by Gerry Smyth ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well as six in-depth case studies which revisit material from the writer’s career in the light of new and emerging theories. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Land Access and Resettlement

    A Guide to Best Practice

    by Gerry Reddy, Eddie Smyth, Michael Steyn ...
    This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement. It provides step-by-step information on how to avoid pitfalls, ensure that best practice is being employed and the correct standards are being applied. With useful real-life examples of when projects have gone well and when they haven't, the book is based on ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Music and Irish Identity

    Celtic Tiger Blues

    by Gerry Smyth ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Judas kiss

    Treason and betrayal in six modern Irish novels

    by Gerry Smyth ...
    This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century. The author goes on to argue that the novel is the literary form most apt for the exploration of betrayal in its social, political and psychological dimensions. The significance of this thesis ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

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  • W.H. Auden

    by Tony Sharpe ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films.This guide to Auden’s compelling work offers:an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Auden’s texts, from publication ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

    Edited by Liam Harte ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

    Edited by Fran Brearton, Alan Gillis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their ... Read more

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  • The Irish Bildungsroman

    by Gregory Castle, Mary Mullen, Christina Morin, Lindsay Janssen, Heidi Hansson, Elizabeth Grubgeld, Julie Anne Stevens, Barry Devine0, Patrick Bixby1, Fiona McCann2, Molly Ferguson3, Ellen Scheible4, Pilar Villar-Argáiz5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman ... Read more

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