This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiations between texts and their contexts and then analyses how the writer both reflects and transforms aspects of his or her...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have positioned their life stories within the wider narrative of the nation’s development. Examining the...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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This is the first interdisciplinary volume to present a sustained examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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This collection of new essays addresses a key debate in Irish studies. While it is important that new research endeavours to accommodate the new and powerful manifestations of Irishness that are evident today in our globalised economy, these considerations are often...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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This book concerns Tomás O’Crohan of the Blasket Islands and offers a radical reinterpretation of this iconic Irish figure and his place in Gaelic literature. It examines the politics of Irish culture that turned O’Crohan into «The Islandman» and harnessed his texts to...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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In the space of a few short decades, Ireland has become one of the most globalised societies in the Western world. The full ramifications of this transformation for traditional Irish communities, religious practice, economic activity, as well as literature and the arts,...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Although W. B. Yeats is one of the most over-theorised authors in the Irish canon, little attempt has been made to situate his occult works in the political context of early twentieth-century Ireland. By evaluating the two versions of A Vision, published in 1925 and...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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This study focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. Since opposites are central to Yeats’s thought, the book begins with an analysis of this topic. The author then examines Yeats’s views on religion, sex and...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Übersetzte Lyrik zu untersuchen bedeutet, neben der Bewältigung eines Dschungels an Definitionen von Übersetzung, hochkomplexe Arbeit ohne spezialisiertes Werkzeug. Ohne systematisierenden Rahmen ist die Gefahr blinder Flecken in der Übersetzungskritik groß, das...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-03-03

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The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Ethics after Auschwitz? Primo Levi’s and Elie Wiesel’s Response demonstrates how, after their horrific experiences in Auschwitz, both Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel could have deservedly expressed rage and bitterness for the rest of their lives. Housed in the same barracks...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda of...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American ‘Bildungsroman’ offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device and as a means of...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-03-03

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This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-03-02

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In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth, but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics, Romantic Fiat presents an argument for a double...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-01

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In 2005, hurricane Katrina and its aftermath starkly revealed the continued racial polarization of America. Disproportionately impacted by the ravages of the storm, displaced black victims were often characterized by the media as "refugees." The characterization was...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-03-01

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After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control, was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-03-01

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Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of philosophical fragments, his settling of accounts with life, marriage,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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