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  • af Lawrence J. McCaffrey
    207,95 - 412,95 kr.

    The author documents his thesis that American urban history begins with the arrival of large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1820s. He argues that Irish Americans' material success, which took them as a group from the ghetto to middle-class, has caused a fading of Irish identity.

  • - Joyce in Dialogue
    af Vicki Mahaffey
    372,95 - 822,95 kr.

    In this collection, Joyce experts from around the world have collaborated with one another to produce a set of essays that stage or result from dialogue between different points of view. The result is a sequence of lively discussions about Joyce's most accessible and widely read set of vignettes about Dublin life at the turn of the century.

  • af John P. Harrington
    463,95 kr.

    Breaking with tradition, this text argues that many of Beckett's texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations. It provides an understanding of Beckett's work in its representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions.

  • af Michael Steinman
    229,95 kr.

  • - W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Second Edition
    af Sanford Sternlicht
    229,95 kr.

    Presents a thorough the introduction to recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theatre.

  • - Approaching Irish-Themed Films
    af Michael Patrick Gillespie
    277,95 - 463,95 kr.

    Challenges the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social, economic, and cultural complexity of contemporary Irish identity, this book argues that filmmakers cannot present Irishness as a monolithic entity.

  • af Elizabeth B. Cullingford
    212,95 kr.

    This work elaborates on how Yeats's experience in the balance of power between men and women led him to expand the formal possibilities of love poetry. The author shows how Yeats's obsession with a ""new woman"" and his unstable gender identity led to constant remaking of traditional lyric forms.

  • - Origin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics of Belonging
    af Catherine Nash
    353,95 kr.

    What does it mean to be of Irish descent? What does Irish descent stand for in Ireland? In Northern Ireland? In the United States? This book addresses these questions by exploring the contemporary significance of ideas of ancestral roots, origins, and connections.

  • - Mirror up to Nation
    af Christopher Murray
    193,95 kr.

    This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

  • - Volume 1: History and Modernity
    af Oona Frawley
    408,95 kr.

    Addresses questions of Irish memory and cultural remembrance through theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural explorations by top scholars in the field of Irish studies. In a series that will ultimately include four volumes, the sixteen essays in this first volume explore remembrance and forgetting throughout history, from early modern Ireland to contemporary multicultural Ireland.

  • - A Study of the Prose
    af Eugene O'Brien
    463,95 kr.

    Seamus Heaney's death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of his career. Much of the scholarship to date on Heaney has focused on his poetry. O'Brien's new work, however, focuses on Heaney's essays, book chapters, and lectures as it seeks to understand how Heaney explored the poet's role in the world.

  • - Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
    af Abby Bender
    463,95 kr.

    Drawing on both canonical and little-known texts of the Literary Revival, Bender highlights the centrality of Exodus in Ireland. In doing so, she recuperates the history of a liberation narrative that was occluded by the aesthetic of 1916, when the Christ story replaced Exodus as a model for revolution and liberation.

  • - The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
    af Julia C. Obert
    408,95 kr.

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    229,95 kr.

    Brings together fresh work by internationally recognized Joyce scholars on these two icons, reinvigorating our understanding of Joyce at play with the Bard. One way these essays revitalize the discussion is by moving beyond the traditional Joycean challenge of "thinking Shakespearean” by "thinking Hamletian”, redefining the field to include works like Troilus and Cressida, Othello, and The Tempest.

  • - A Memoir of Irish America
    af Maureen Waters
    174,95 - 262,95 kr.

    A story of a woman finding her way in the disorienting 1960s after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaginable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own heritage.

  • - Boy Mayor and Irish Nationalist
    af Joseph E. Fahey
    262,95 kr.

  • - Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory
     
    532,95 kr.

    In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined. The collection includes leading Joyce scholars including Luke Gibbons, Vincent Cheng, and Declan Kiberd and considers such topics as Jewish memory in Ulysses, history and memory in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce and the Bible.

  • - Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
    af Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
    372,95 - 463,95 kr.

  • - Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
    af Margaret Lynch-Brennan
    277,95 kr.

    'Bridget' was the Irish immigrant service girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliche: the young girl who wreaks havoc in middle-class American homes. This book tells the story of such Irish domestic servants.

  • af Karen Steele
    298,95 - 617,95 kr.

    Explores the literary and historical significance of women's writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish Revival. This work studies women's writings in the Irish nationalist tradition, focusing on leading female voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Easter Rising of 1916.

  • af Weldon Thornton
    271,95 kr.

    In this study of Joyce's ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"", the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the novel. He argues that although ""Portrait"" may be a classic text of literary modernism, it is a fundamentally antimodernist work.

  • - Film, Photography, and Popular Culture
    af Eoin Flannery
    353,95 kr.

    A collection of essays that seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. It examines the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

  • - Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora
    af John P. Harrington
    298,95 kr.

    Explores the history of Irish theater in America, from Harrigan and Hart to the productions of senior Irish playwrights such as Brian Friel and younger writers such as Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. This volume includes examinations of company dynamics, tours of companies and actors, and the production history of individual works.

  • - Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett
    af Alan Friedman
    271,95 - 532,95 kr.

    Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. This work explores the rich historical and literary backgrounds of this distinctly Irish phenomenon. It discusses the major works of both authors.

  • - Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce
    af Emer Nolan
    277,95 - 463,95 kr.

    Tracing the history of the Catholic-authored novel in nineteenth-century Ireland, this work offers a tour of Ireland's literary landscape from its early origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to the transformative zenith brought on by James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922.

  • - A Study of the Beckettian Mentality
    af Eric P. Levy
    298,95 kr.

    Aims to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations of the human experience. This work maintains that diligent reading of the Beckett corpus reveals that Beckett was intensely concerned with representing certain ""constitutive principles"" of the human condition.

  • - Poetry, Prose, Drama
    af James J MacKillop
    387,95 kr.

    Maureen ORourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey 13 centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of 19th-century prose and poetry. For each author there is a biographical sketch, discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography.

  • - A Literary and Intellectual History
    af Joseph Lennon
    372,95 - 532,95 kr.

    Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.

  • - Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative
    af Elizabeth Grubgeld
    259,95 - 589,95 kr.

    Autobiography exists in a mutually influential relationship with the literature history, private writings, and domestic practices of a society. This book illuminates the ways evolving class and gender identities interact with these inherited forms of narrative to produce the testimony of a culture confronting its own demise.

  • - Voice of the Rural Ireland
    af Albert J De Giacomo
    353,95 kr.

    Drawing on archive material, DeGiacomo assesses T.C. Murray's contribution to the Irish dramatic movement. Largely a work of theatre history, this text spans Murray's life and career from 1878 to 1959, and highlights Murray's plays on Abbey tours of America from 1911 to 1935.

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