Author: Charles James LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Luttrell of Aran
Author: Charles James LeverLuttrell of Arran
Author: LeverLuttrell of Arran
Author: Charles James LeverLuttrell of Arran. Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Works of Charles Lever: Luttrell of Arran. Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles LeverStones of Aran: Labyrinth
Author: Tim RobinsonPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words. In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth he turns in to the island’s interior. These two books—parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other—constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.
English Romanticism and the Celtic World
Author: Gerard CarruthersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
English Romanticism and the Celtic World explores the way in which British Romantic writers responded to the national and cultural identities of the 'four nations' England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The essays collected here, by specialists in the field, interrogate the cultural centres as well as the peripheries of Romanticism, and the interactions between these. They underline 'Celticism' as an emergent strand of cultural ethnicity during the eighteenth century, examining the constructions of Celticness and Britishness in the Romantic period, including the ways in which the 'Celtic' countries viewed themselves in the light of Romanticism. Other topics include the development of Welsh antiquarianism, the Ossian controversy, Irish nationalism, Celtic landscapes, Romantic form and Orientalism. The collection covers writing by Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron and Shelley, and will be of interest to scholars of Romanticism and Celtic studies.
John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre
Author: Maurice BourgeoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The life & works of the 20th century playwright. Bibliography of his works, translations & unpublished manuscripts. " The book is an excellent corrective of all the personal stories & memoirs, autobiographies & impressions of those who themselves were actors in the tale. Here we get perspective into the story & justice. His book will be the starting place for all who write hereafter of Synge & desire a solid base on which to build their conception. But the book is more than that. It is itself full of good criticism & alive with understanding."--SATURDAY REVIEW. Illus.
Ireland in Fiction
Author: Stephen James Meredith BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Design Roots
Author: Stuart WalkerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474241832
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly lost due to globalisation and urbanisation. Yet they have much to offer for the future in terms of sustainability, identity, wellbeing and new opportunities in design. This book considers the creative roots, the place-based ecologies, and deep understandings of cultural significance, not only in terms of history and tradition but also in terms of locale, social interactions, innovation, and change for the sustainment of culturally significant material productions. Importantly, these are not locked in time by sentimentality and nostalgia but are evolving, innovative, and adaptive to new technologies and changing circumstances. Contributing authors explore the historical roots of culturally significant designs, products and practices, emerging directions, amateur endeavours, enterprise models, business opportunities and the changing role and contribution of design in the creation of material cultures of significance, meaning and value. An international perspective is provided through case studies and research from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia, with examples including Aran jumper production in Northern Ireland, weaving in Thailand, Iranian housing design, Brazilian street design and digital crafting in the United Kingdom.