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25 produkter
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2001
634 kr
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This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of interest in the category of space in modern cultural criticism and social inquiry, and the …
Music and Irish Identity
Celtic Tiger Blues
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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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 …
Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Inbunden, 2021
179 kr
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Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore.Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2023
317 kr
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The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom and Myth
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2025
219 kr
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The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the …
Tara of the Kings
Ancient Irish Myths and Legends Retold
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2026
324 kr
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Journey through ancient history with new retellings of Irish myths and legends from Gerry SmythHere we visit an island of mortals and immortals, warriors and giants, druids and shapeshifters; of rolling hills echoing with the sound of hunting horns, and dark forests through which mad monarchs roam; …
Judas Kiss
Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2015
1291 kr
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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 …
Novel and the Nation
Studies in the New Irish Fiction
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 1997
355 kr
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Recent developments in Irish literature are largely ignored in existing critical texts on Irish culture. This is the first study to make a detailed examination of the new novelists and themes emerging in the genre, as well as covering the foundations of contemporary Irish fiction. Gerry Smyth …
Decolonisation and Criticism
The Construction of Irish Literature
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 1998
411 kr
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This book investigates the role of literary criticism in the process of Irish decolonisation since the late eighteenth century, with special emphasis on the 1950s. Drawing on the work of both Irish and international commentators – including Edward Said, David Lloyd, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and …
Music and Irish Identity
Celtic Tiger Blues
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2016
856 kr
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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 …
Music and Irish Identity
Celtic Tiger Blues
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2016
838 kr
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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 …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2001
634 kr
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This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of interest in the category of space in modern cultural criticism and social inquiry, and the …
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2026
1223 kr
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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 …
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2026
393 kr
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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 …
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2026
430 kr
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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 …
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2026
430 kr
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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 …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2001
896 kr
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This book reconstitutes the category of ''space'' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of interest in the category of space in modern cultural criticism and social inquiry, and the …
Music and Irish Identity
Celtic Tiger Blues
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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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 …
Judas kiss
Treason and betrayal in six modern Irish novels
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2018
336 kr
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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 …
Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce
Joyces Noyces
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2020
1021 kr
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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 …
Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce
Joyces Noyces
Av Gerry Smyth
E-bok, 2020
1250 kr
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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 …
Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce
Joyces Noyces
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2021
961 kr
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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 …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2025
348 kr
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Explorations in Cultural History
Av T. G. Ashplant, Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2001
368 kr
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History is an invention in the present, as much as a representation and interpretation of the past. This has opened up innovative approaches to the research and writing of history, and it is the two ideas central to this theme - that culture is historically conditioned and history culturally …
Explorations in Cultural History
Av T. G. Ashplant, Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2001
972 kr
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History is an invention in the present, as much as a representation and interpretation of the past. This has opened up innovative approaches to the research and writing of history, and it is the two ideas central to this theme - that culture is historically conditioned and history culturally …
