Irish Literature, History, and Culture – serie
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ReJoycing
New Readings of Dubliners
Av Rosa Bollettieri Bosinelli, Harold F Mosher
Häftad, 1998
501 kr
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"In this volume, the contributors -- a veritable Who's Who of Joyce specialists -- provide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism."
Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966
Inbunden, 1997
595 kr
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Over the years American -- especially New York -- audiences have evolved a consistent set of expectations for the "Irish play." Traditionally the term implied a specific subject matter, invariably rural and Catholic, and embodied a reductive notion of Irish drama and society. This view continues to …
Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones
Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence
Inbunden, 1999
654 kr
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In a 1984 lecture on poetry and political violence, Seamus Heaney remarked that ""the idea of poetry was itself that higher ideal to which the poets had unconsciously turned in order to survive the demeaning conditions."" Jonathan Hufstader examines the work of Heaney and his contemporaries to …
Passage to the Center
Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Av Daniel Tobin
Häftad, 2009
511 kr
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Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body …
Hallowed Eve
Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland
Av Jack Santino
Häftad, 2009
290 kr
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In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become …
But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us
Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature
Häftad, 2009
595 kr
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At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the "other"" Ireland, however, proved a most difficult other because it was so closely linked, both culturally and geographically, to England. Ireland's …
