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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Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-02-21

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This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-02-17

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'Your brother looked healthy, happy, natural. But everything else about him is extremely odd. Not faintly odd. Extremely odd. Except in appearance. He's the opposite of you.' Quentin CrispAt the age of twenty-two, the youngest of five brothers, Jonathan Barrow, was...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-10

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Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper insight into ourselves and others. Prescriptive cultural stereotypes, however, put obstacles on our path to progress as...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-02-03

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This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new rules for appreciating art, but also helped to shape the aesthetic...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-02-03

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In der offiziellen Begründung zur Verleihung des Nobelpreises an William G. Golding (1983) ist u. a. hervorgehoben, dass sein Romanwerk «die menschlichen Bedingungen in der heutigen Welt» beleuchtet. Es stellt sich die spannende Frage, wie sich die in den Romanen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-02-03

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Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists' biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. During this period artists gradually distanced themselves from artisans and began to be recognised for their imaginative and intellectual...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-01-27

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Novel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement. Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way to critique the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-01-15

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This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-01-14

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