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  • Ulysses

    Annotated Students' Edition

    by James Joyce ...
    A new, annotated students' edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, based on the original 1922 textFor James Joyce, literature is 'the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerisation, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging ... Read more

    $31.39 USD

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  • Inventing Ireland

    The Literature of a Modern Nation

    by Declan Kiberd ...
    Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of ... Read more

    $23.49 USD

  • England and Eternity

    A Book of Cricket

    by Declan Kiberd ...
    A teasing but affectionate celebration of cricket through the ages, written by one of Ireland's greatest living critics.Cricket is the strangest game. It features idealism, brutality, low comedy, high intelligence, luck and sheer bravery in equal measure – and often achieves the condition of art.Declan Kiberd's remarkable book is a celebration of cricket through the ages, and of the peculiarities ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Book About Everything

    Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

    Edited by Declan Kiberd, Catherine Wilsdon, Professor Enrico Terrinoni ...
    To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • From Enlightenment to Rebellion

    Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox

    by Paul William Child, Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, Carole Fabricant, Declan Kiberd, Mary McAleese, Patrick McCabe, Barry McCrae, Joseph McMinn, Peter McQuillan, Kurt Edward Milberger, Amy C. Mulligan, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Dirk Friedrich Paßmann, Hermann Josef Real, John Sitter, Jim Smyth ...
    This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership, from the development of ... Read more

    $119.09 USD

  • After Ireland

    Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

    by Declan Kiberd ...
    Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ulysses

    Penguin Classics

    by James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Patrick Gibson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Patrick Gibson, known for his roles in The OA, The Tudors and The Passing Bells. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Declan Kiberd'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to th ... Read more

    $21.84 USD

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  • Irish Essays

    by Denis Donoghue ...
    Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity that underlie the finest achievements of Irish writing in all genres. Together, the essays form an ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Ireland

    A Social and Cultural History 1922–2001

    by Dr. Terence Brown ...
    The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein – or of remaining neutral during the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • English Literature in Context

    Edited by Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Culture

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s valueCulture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $19.09 USD