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  • Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Bioregional Imagination

    Literature, Ecology, and Place

    Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature.The twenty-four original essays here are written by ... Leer más

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  • Unfolding Irish landscapes

    Tim Robinson, culture and environment

    Edición de Derek Gladwin, Christine Cusick ...
    This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

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    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Leer más

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  • Irish Children's Literature and Culture

    New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity

    Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these representations of Ireland and the fluid nature of cultural identity, especially during a period of ... Leer más

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  • Pedagogic Criticism

    Reconfiguring University English Studies

    de Ben Knights ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English is characterized as a ‘boundary’ subject, active in dialogue across a number of imagined borders, especially those between academic and non-specialized readerships. While the subject discipline ... Leer más

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  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Leer más

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    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

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  • Parfit

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  • Animals and Society

    An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edición de M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
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    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 ... Leer más

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