Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus Kelleher, Margaret, Editor €10.99 - now €2.75 75% off! save €8.24 ISBN: 1 901866 46 7 Format: Size: Publication Date: March 2000 Physical Copy (supplied by Lilliput Press) Add to Basket View Shopping Basket

Making It New appears on the occasion of the first major revision of the Leaving Certificate English syllabus in thirty years. This pioneering collection of essays examines the core authors and texts from the new syllabus. Written by leading scholars from a range of Irish third-level institutions, these essays provide engaging and accessible introductions to less familiar authors and open up new critical readings of established texts. There are also three essays on film, a new element in the English syllabus. An invaluable resource for teachers and students of the new syllabus, this is a volume with much to offer any reader interested in contemporary developments in literature.

CONTENTS
poetry
Conrad Brunström (NUI, Maynooth) on Philip Larkin
Lucy Collins (University College Dublin) on Eavan Boland
Peter Denman (NUIM) on Elizabeth Bishop and Michael Longley
John Devitt (Mater Dei Institute) on Seamus Heaney

fiction
Joseph Cleary (NUIM) on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Richard Hayes (Mater Dei Institute) on Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark
Margaret Kelleher (NUIM) on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Emer Nolan (NUIM) on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

drama
Patrick Burke (St Patrick's, Drumcondra) on Brian Friel
Brian Cosgrove (NUIM) on King Lear
Paul Hollywood (NUIM) on Hamlet

film
Gerardine Meaney (UCD) on film narrative
Christopher Morash (NUIM) on literature and film
Sarah Smith (UCD) on Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot

THE EDITOR
Margaret Kelleher lectures in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is author of The Feminization of Famine (1997) and co-edited (with James Murphy) Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1997).