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  • Joyce / Shakespeare

    by Valérie Bénéjam, Richard Brown, Vincent J. Cheng, Paul Fagan, Dieter Fuchs, John McCourt, Vike Martina Plock, Giuseppina Restivo, Sam Slote ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consuming Joyce

    100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

    by John McCourt ...
    "This book was crying out to be written." The Irish Times"Scandalously readable." Literary ReviewJames Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork Ulysses - referred to by The Quarterly Review as an "Odyssey of the sewer" - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Joyce in Trieste

    An Album of Risky Readings

    Edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, John McCourt ...
    Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
    A celebration of the transformative effects of James Joyce’s time in TriesteJoyce in Trieste is a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon James Joyce. This volume begins with three path-breaking essays: Michael Groden’s discussion of the manuscripts acquired by the National Library of Ireland in 2002, Margot Norris’s introduction of the paradigm of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • James Joyce in Context

    Edited by John McCourt ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters. It goes on to examine how his works were received in the main twentieth-century critical and theoretical ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services

    Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted

    by Fonkem Achankeng, Derek Dich, Michelle Devine Giese, Kendra Green, James Kevin Groves, Leslie A. Hagedorn, Alfred T. Kisubi, Melinda Kline, David Liners, Patricia McCourt0, Diane P. McMillen1, John Paulson2, Mark Rice3, Lynne M. Woehrle4, Pearl Wright5 ...
    This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • James Joyce

    by Andrew Gibson ...
    Series Book 10 - Critical Lives
    With an introduction by Declan KiberdIn this new work, Andrew Gibson sets out to reverse the traditional view of Joyce and his work as the paradigm of international modernism in literature. Where criticism has usually consigned Ireland to secondary status in Joyce’s work, Gibson firmly relocates the writer and his work in Ireland, showing them at all points to be intricately bound up in Irish ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $30.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

    Edited by Christopher Innes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Joycean Murmoirs

    Fritz Senn on James Joyce

    by Fritz Senn ...
    In charge of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation since its inception in 1985, Fritz Senn has studied the life and works of James Joyce for five decades, published widely and taught across Europe and the United States. He has been on the editorial board of all major Joyce journals, co-founded A Wake Newslitter with Clive Hart in the 1980s and supervised and co-ordinated the Frankfurt Joyce Edition ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Muriel Spark

    The Biography

    by Martin Stannard ...
    The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday).Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her ... Read more

    $3.99 USD