Andrew Thacker brings together a range of different critical interpretations of Dubliners that demonstrate the complexity and fascination of James Joyce's 'moral history'. The volume includes a variety of essays by a number of influential Joyce scholars and shows how contemporary literary theory has opened up Dubliners in exciting and revealing new ways. The essays tackle a host of issues, such as Irish history, gender relations, and the nature of literary interpretation itself.

This is a clear and incisive account of the Imagists, the first significant group of modernist poets writing in English. This book offers a lively account of the Imagists poets, the first significant group of modernist poets writing in English. It discusses what their writing achieved, and analyses the theoretical claims of Imagism in relation to its poetic practice. It revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations. The book shows the variety of...