Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK

Beth O'Leary Anish

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors wh... Lees meer

Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contex... Lees meer

Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Christopher Laverty

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney's achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poet... Lees meer

The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses

R Kershner

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular cult... Lees meer

Joyce and the Science of Rhythm

W Martin

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of th... Lees meer

Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature

M McGlynn

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and g... Lees meer

Excess in Modern Irish Writing

Michael McAteer

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of exces... Lees meer

Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners . Despite the multifaceted critical attention ... Lees meer

The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Ailbhe McDaid

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Deals with the poetry of contemporary migration, a topic of increasing critical attention Addresses the work of several contemporary Irish poets whose... Lees meer

Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker

Richard Jorge

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict ... Lees meer

The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• T he Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing considers the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from th... Lees meer

Representations of Policing in Northern Irish Theatre

T W Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers' representation in theatre. Importantly, its scop... Lees meer

Joyce and the Science of Rhythm

W Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of th... Lees meer

Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited collection explores the ac... Lees meer

The Literature of Northern Ireland

M Ruprecht Fadem

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural p... Lees meer

The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hun... Lees meer

Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Christopher Laverty

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney's achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poet... Lees meer

Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature

Birte Heidemann

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature', consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern Irish writers w... Lees meer

James Joyce and the Revolt of Love

J Utell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biograph... Lees meer

Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972

M Ballin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book examines periodical production in the context of post-revolutionary Ireland, employing the unique lens of genre theory in detailed compariso... Lees meer

The Literature of Northern Ireland

M Ruprecht Fadem

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural p... Lees meer

Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway

Maria Szasz

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway is the first book-length history of the multi-award winning Off-Broadway Irish... Lees meer

Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars

Antonio Bibbò

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the tw... Lees meer

Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry

Daniela Theinová

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Ir... Lees meer