Author: Justin McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Irish Literature
Author: Justin McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Cabinet of Irish Literature
Author: Charles Anderson ReadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Idioms of Self Interest
Author: Jill Phillips IngramPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135866120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise. Drawing on women’s wills, merchants’ tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that focus on The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, and Whitney’s Wyll and Testament, it finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest. Authors also register this stress as the failure of economic systems that deny self-interest, as in the overwrought paternalistic systems depicted in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. The book demonstrates that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were more flexible and innovative than appears at first glance, and it argues that the notion of self-interest is a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.
Irish Writing
Author: Stephen ReganPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. YeatsThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, the anthology shows how, in forging a tradition of theirown, Irish writers have continually challenged and renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs,memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.'Stephen Regan's anthology vividly and valiantly presents a nation, and a national literature, coming into being.' Paul Muldoon
Irish Literature
Author: Alexander Norman JeffaresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The second of the three volumes, roughly spans the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a period dominated by the enormity of the Great Famine. Its terror is recorded in first-hand accounts and in the powerless yet forceful reactions which this cataclysmic event engendered in such writers as John Mitchel (who in his Jail Journal pits the self against the state). This volume documents the rise of cultural nationalism, in the work of the contributors to The Nation (Davis, Mangan, Lady Wilde), and the response of Unionist intelligentsia in the Dublin University Magazine. It juxtaposes the authentic Gaelic voice in translation (Ferguson and Walsh) against the haunting intensity of Mangan and the non-conformism of his fellow inauthenticator Father Prout. It witnesses the stage Irishman in Lever's fiction being placed on Boucicault's popular podium, in his reworking of Gerald GriffinÃ?Â?Ã?Â-s account of The Colleen Bawn. It records the rise of Fenianism (in such writers as Charles Kickham), and it sees Ireland taking stock (in the work of W.E.H. Lecky). It notes the emergence of a new literary confidence in the works of Sigerson and Todhunter. It extends well beyond examinations of Irish identity, not only in encapsulating popular writing, but also by incorporating writers of Irish descent who investigated different cultures.
Irish Writers on Writing
Author: Eavan BolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a writer in Ireland"--Provided by publisher.
Stakeknife
Author: Greg HarkinPublisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
BESTSELLER An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories of two undercover agents -- Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), aiding loyalist terrorists and murderers in their bloody work; and the man known as Stakeknife, deputy head of the IRA's infamous 'Nutting Squad', the internal security force which tortured and killed suspected informers.
Irish Literature: Petrie
Author: Justin McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Literature
Author: Paradise
Author: Cory IngramPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1999471504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Literary and whimsical, Paradise is a coming-of-age story of first gay love. Set in an idyllic Toronto summer-an Eden-before the era of dating apps, Chris must confront his truth and the darker forces that slither in the shadows. Enlivened by a troop of supporting characters, the story careens through the big questions, suggesting that the paradise of love might be as near but elusive as the landscapes of the imagination. From campus life to the landscapes of Southern Ontario, Ingram weaves a tapestry of dazzling prose around a story that lingers like a dream.