Anomalous States, Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment
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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 ...

Beckett In Dublin
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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...

Colonial Consequences, Essays in Irish Literature and Culture
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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
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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, Patrick Galv...

Inductive Scrutinies: Focus On Joyce
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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 ...

Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000
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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)
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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 and pre-Ho...

Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus
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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 f...

Outstaring Nature's Eye
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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. ...

Reading the Future
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A fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the RTE Radio One series Reading the Future.

"Writing, though it often deals with...

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney
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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
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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 gave critic...

The Textual Diaries of James Joyce
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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 ground f...

The Whole Matter, The Poetic Evolution of Thomas Kinsella
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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 proces...