In this study of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the novel. He argues that although Portrait may be a classic text of literary modernism, it is a fundamentally antimodernist work.
In this study of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the no...
For William Butler Yeats, poetic license sometimes meant misquoting writers or misspelling Irish words. This reference guide illuminates the poetry of the Irish writer.
For William Butler Yeats, poetic license sometimes meant misquoting writers or misspelling Irish words. This reference guide illuminates the poetry of...
A collection of essays written by well-known contemporary Irish women poets about their lives in relation to their own poetics. It is a conglomeration of voices around common themes, which have recently and forcefully emerged to permanently change Irish poetry.
A collection of essays written by well-known contemporary Irish women poets about their lives in relation to their own poetics. It is a conglomeration...
This volume traces Yeats fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, especially his interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, helped shape his aesthetic theory and practice as a poet. She argues that the analogies Yeats often used between the visual arts and literature provide an apt way to characterize his own work. In the early verse, the governing analogy is poem-as-painting; later, influenced by his work inthe theatre, Yeats writes poems analogous to the three-dimensional forms of...
This volume traces Yeats fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influenc...
David Stifter's Sengoidelc (SHAN-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this exhaustive handbook is also an invaluable reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. The author's step-by-step presentation in an engaging styles lead the novice through the idiosyncracies of the language, such as initial mutations and the double inflection of verbs. Filled with translation exercises based on selections from Old Irish texts, the book...
David Stifter's Sengoidelc (SHAN-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course...
Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic Church s understanding of ethos in post-Vatican II educational documents and compares this understanding with the Irish Catholic Church s approach to school ethos. Based on his own experience and research, Norman suggests new possibilities for the development of ethos in Catholic schools."
Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic ...
Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women Dramatists. The plays collected in this volume represent a cross-section of the excellent dramatic output of Irish women writing in the twentieth century. In addition to the scripts and biographical introductions, the anthology includes a detailed, critical, annotated essay addressing the...
Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female p...
Shakespeare s presence in Joyce s work is tentacular, extending throughout his career on many different levels: cultural, structural, lexical, and psychological; yet a surprisingly long time has passed since the last monograph on this literary nexus was published." Joyce/Shakespeare" brings together fresh work by internationally recognized Joyce scholars on these two icons, reinvigorating our understanding of Joyce at play with the Bard. One way these essays revitalize the discussion is by moving well beyond the traditional Joycean challenge of "thinking Shakespearean" by "thinking...
Shakespeare s presence in Joyce s work is tentacular, extending throughout his career on many different levels: cultural, structural, lexical, and ...
In 1890, "The Snake s Pass" was published in serialized form in the periodical "The People." It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland, and now that he is a man of leisure, he decides to tour the west of Ireland. As Bram Stoker s first full-length novel, "The Snake s Pass "is a heady blend of romance, travel narrative, adventure tale, folk tradition, and national tale. This early novel shows that, long before Dracula, Stoker...
In 1890, "The Snake s Pass" was published in serialized form in the periodical "The People." It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who ha...
