Anomalous States, Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment

Anomalous States is an archaeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd begins with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of ...

Beckett In Dublin

Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Beckett's cradle, a place, in Eoin O'Brien's words, he revisited 'with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray'. It was fitting, then, shortly after Beckett's death, tha...

Colonial Consequences, Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural ba...

In The Prison of his Days: A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on his 70th Birthday

In The Prison of his Days: A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on His 70th Birthday includes work by the following authors:

Chinua Achebe, John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Mary Benson, Edward Bond, Hubert Butler, Austin Clarke, ...

Inductive Scrutinies: Focus On Joyce

Inductive Scrutinies gathers some of Fritz Senn's major essays of the last ten years. Based principally on Ulysses, they display anew his regard for Joyce's text in all its detail. The selection does not attempt a broad overview of Senn's writing, nor ...

Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000

John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemp...

Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (PB)

These witty and informing essays range across Ireland's Victorian and twentieth-century literature with special attention to the social and historical backgrounds. The poet Tom Moore, novelist-priest P.A. Sheenan, professor-critic Edward Dowden an...

Outstaring Nature's Eye

This first book-length study of the fiction of John McGahern traces his development as an artist by providing a detailed reading of each of his five novels and three collection of stories.

Denis Sampson teaches English at Vanier College, Montreal. ...

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastora...

The Battle of the Books

The war of words between critics and writers is no paper conflict but affects daily life where literature and politics interact. The twentieth-century concern is nowhere more evident than in Ireland today where the growing 'Troubles' in Ulster...

The Textual Diaries of James Joyce

This important new study of James Joyce's working practices relates the true history and origin of English literature's towering masterwork, Finnegans Wake (1939), and lays the...

The Weight of Compassion and Other Essays

THERE ARE MANY facets to Samuel Beckett’s writing – humour, despair, love, poignancy, suffering – but for me there is one dominant characteristic, compassion, compassion for the human condition of existence.’ So begins ...

The Whole Matter, The Poetic Evolution of Thomas Kinsella

Joint publication with Syracuse University Press

'With painstaking scholarship and a wise discernment, Jackson has re-examined Kinsella's influences and shown how they affect the processes of his poetry... The first critic to establish convincingly, rat...