Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Crows behind the Plough
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Ireland in Writing
Author: Jacqueline HurtleyPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042002791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Ireland in Writing: Interviews with Writers and Academics focuses on the textual mapping of the country over the century through the creative energies and intellectual reflections of a selection of writers and educators at the tertiary level. The volume is a collection of eleven interviews held by three university teachers and a research assistant, all resident in Spain. The interviews with both male and female writers and academics, who hail from Northern Ireland and the Republic, have been conducted over the 1990s. The writers were quizzed about their own writing: how it came into being, who or what they have looked to as inspirational and how their novels, short stories, poetry and plays relate to Ireland past and present. The academics express views on their critical theories and practices, on particular areas of interest, on English and Irish in Ireland, on contemporary writing and cultural dynamics: from Friel to Telefís Éireann, passing through Field Day, the Abbey and the question of a hybrid Irish identity.
"Celebrating Confusion"
Author: Kenneth NallyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443803650
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.
Ritual Remembering
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Most of the essays in Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama, in part or in whole, frequently allude or directly concern themselves with the dramatic representation of the opposition or the collusion of myth and history, and the uses and abuses of both. Equally they celebrate and critically analyse the politics of the social conscience and social consciousness which pervades Irish drama in its rituals of forgetfulness and memory. Perhaps myth is above all to be understood as the conscience and consciousness of history; and politics is the projection of that myth into present social action - on the hustings (nowadays more frequently the television hustings), at the ballot box, in writing and on the stage. Most of the articles in this volume revolve around these gravely portentous and ambivalent themes, which nobody who is as much concerned with Anglo-Irish relations as with Anglo-Irish literature can disregard or evade.
The Kailyard Collection
Author: Ian MaclarenPublisher: Palimpsest Book Production Limited
ISBN: 1910486205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
A Scottish lost treasures collection of three classic 'Kailyard' novels, each offering a superbly plotted and descriptive narrative. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Author: Ephraim ChambersBeckett in the 1990s
Author: Marius BuningPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051835663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Green Crow
Author: Kristine UlbergaPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720620260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Part of the Peter Owen World Series: BalticsInstitutionalized in an asylum, a woman with a record of hallucinations commits her life story to paper. She records, from the age of six, her earliest memories of a drunken and abusive father, the strange men her mother introduced to repair the family, the imaginary forest to which she would run for safety and, of course, the talking Green Crow who appeared when she most needed her. The Green Crow is a conceited, boisterous creature who follows the novel's nameless protagonist throughout her life, until the day that the crow's presence begins to embarrass her. Confined to a tedious domestic life, she is desperate to hide the crow's very existence. Failing to do so, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Can she repress and renounce her acerbic, sharp-beaked daemon - or learn to love herself, bird and all? Translated from the Latvian by Zanete Vevere Pasqualini
International Short Stories: English
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Some of the best-known writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are represented in this collection, including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Biennial Report of the Vermont State Board of Agriculture, Manufactures and Mining ...
Author: Vermont. State Board of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description