Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs – serie
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Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture
Häftad, 1998
782 kr
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This innovative collection of essays views Irish culture from the eighteenth century to the present day, covering a wide range of Irish topics and authors. Bishop Berkeley, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Francis Hutcheson, Laurence Sterne, Richard Steele, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, W. B. …
Keeper's Recital
Music and Cultural History in Ireland 1770-1970
Av Harry White
Häftad, 1998
459 kr
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This is the first study to survey the development of musical thought in modern Irish cultural history. It registers the function of music as a dynamic agent in the history of Irish ideas in the period 1770 - 1970. Ireland's verbally dominated culture has depended on music throughout its evolution, …
Tree of Liberty
Radicalism, Catholicism, and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830
Av Kevin Whelan
Häftad, 1998
553 kr
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Circe's Cup
Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland
Häftad, 2002
526 kr
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Circe's Cup is a collection of eight essays that investigate the role writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. This radical new assessment of culture and conflict in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland covers a wide range of topics, including ethnography, translation …
Foreign Affections
Essays on Edmund Burke
Av Seamus Deane
Häftad, 2005
553 kr
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This intriguing collection of essays is dominated by the figure of Edmund Burke and by accounts of the ways in which he and some of those he influenced understood the revolutionary changes that produced the modern world. The issues of liberty and empire, faction and revolution, universality, …
Ireland's Others
Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture
Av Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Häftad, 2002
617 kr
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Ireland's Others is a collection of essays by noted literary and cultural critic Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. In this volume, Cullingford assesses attempts by Irish writers to reverse hostile colonial stereotypes by creating analogies between their situations and those of other oppressed people. …
Revival
The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement
Häftad, 2003
700 kr
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P. J. Mathews argues against the received opinion that the Irish Revival was a purely mystical affair of high culture characterized by a preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality, nostalgia for Gaelic Ireland, and anti-modern traditionalism. Instead, he claims, the time of the Irish …
Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations
Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in Ireland, C.1750–1800
Häftad, 2004
700 kr
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It is often said that all history writing is political. This book, the first major study of Irish antiquarian and historical writing during the turbulent second half of the eighteenth century, demonstrates the truth of this maxim. It charts the ways in which contemporary politics, notably the …
