Author: Padraic ColumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
A Treasury of Irish Folklore
Author: Padraic ColumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Author: Jason Marc HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317134656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century
Author: David PiercePublisher: Cork University Press
ISBN: 9781859182581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description
"Arranged chronologically by decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s, each decade is divided into two different types of writing: critical/documentary and imaginative writing, and is accompanied by a headnote which situates it thematically and chronologically. The Reader is also structured for thematic study by listing all the pieces included under a series of topic headings. The wide range of material encompasses writings of well-known figures in the Irish canon and neglected writers alike. This will appeal to the general reader, but also makes Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century ideal as a core text, providing a unique focus for detailed study in a single volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival
Author: John Wilson FosterPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
Newgrange Speaks for Itself
Author: Jacqueline Ingalls GarnettPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412057175
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Firmly grounded in the structure and engravings of Newgrange, this book offers several revolutionary insights into both its science and its religious faith. Forty carved motifs are explained as emblems of site features which the builders provided to ensure an afterlife for the dead, including the nine carved rungs in the passage, the "leak" that delivered water to the chamber bowl and slab, the two round sockets in the rim of the bowl, the stone marbles found in the chamber, and the starry outviews originally possible through the chamber vault. The author argues that some of Michael O'Kelly's discoveries suggest Newgrange may have been retooled when precession displaced the targets of those outviews. The book explores the builders' competent astronomical and mathematical skills, and shows how these were combined with an afterlife faith capable of engaging both mind and spirit. A radical analysis of five related motifs exposes unexpectedly sophisticated characteristics of the Newgrangemen's mode of expression. The rich cluster of afterlife agencies identifiable at Newgrange, unique as a fingerprint, can also be recognized in certain myths, fairytales, religious traditions, and superstitious observances. Mrs. Garnett shows how these resources may shed light on the heretofore almost completely unknown afterlife faith and practice of these stone-age people.
Shillelagh
Author: John W. HurleyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430325704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
For centuries the Irish have been associated with a stick weapon called the Shillelagh. And for generations of Irishmen, the Shillelagh was a badge of honor - a symbol of their courage, their martial prowess and their willingness to fight for their rights and their honor. In modern popular culture, the Shillelagh has acquired a less appealing image, one that attempts to declaw the Irish through negative racial stereotypes of the Victorian era, which depict the Irish as harmless club-weilding Leprecauns or drunken, half-witted brawlers. John Hurley's illuminating study forever alters our view of this much maligned and misunderstood cultural icon by revealing the true martial arts culture of the Irish people, its history, evolution and decline and the resulting effects on the Shillelagh - the most powerful and controversial of Irish icons.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Newbery and Caldecott Medalists and Honor Book Winners
Author: Muriel BrownPublisher: New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This is an enlarged version of the 1982 edition, updated to include the 1991 recipients. It offers the same inclusive listing of Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, library collections with significant holdings and background readings on each of the 325 award-winning authors and illustrators. The volume is organised by author/illustrator and identifies the first appearance of each title. It also includes separate listings of Newbery Medal and Honor Books; Caldecott Medal and Honor Books; collections; a background reading bibliography; and an author/illustrator/title index. It has a companion volume, Newberry and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books in Other Media, and the two books are also available as a set at a price of u72.00."
The Book Buyer's Guide
Author: A Guide to Catholic Reading
Author: Jack F. BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description