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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marjorie howe”
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  • The Irish Revival

    A Complex Vision

    by Joseph Valente, Marjorie Howes, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Gregory Castle, Karen Steele, Mary Mullen, Paige Reynolds0, Gregory Dobbins1, Kelly Sullivan2, Tina O’Toole3, Anne Fogarty4, Abby Bender5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. The general tenor of recent scholarly work has involved an emphasis on inclusion and addition, exploring previously neglected texts, authors, regional variations, and international connections. Such work, while often excellent, tends to see ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

    Edited by Marjorie Howes, John Kelly ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Old Rhyl 1850-1910

    Text Taken from 'The Commissioners of Rhyl'

    by Marjorie Howe ...
    Originally written by Marjorie Howe as “The Commisioners of Rhyl” this book provides a fascinating insight into the establishment of early Rhyl as a town. From its first Commissioners to the formation of the Rhyl Urban District Council, this well researched book goes into some detail about how the town grew and prospered with the influx of visitors and the growing population. Many houses & ... Read more

    $3.07 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

  • The Twentieth Century in Poetry

    by Peter Childs ...
    Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Words Alone

    Yeats and his Inheritances

    by R. F. Foster ...
    W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

    by Cóilín Parsons ...
    The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Performing Character in Modern Irish Drama

    Between Art and Society

    by Michał Lachman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists created by such authors as Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Friel and Murphy, and McGuinness and Walsh, it tracks the development of aesthetic ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Colonial Consequences

    Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916', to the literature and life-styles of Northern Ireland. They give eloquent, close readings of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

    Edited by Shaun Richards ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

    Edited by Nigel Alderman, C. D. Blanton ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-centuryIntroduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew MotionTakes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • A History of English Autobiography

    Edited by Adam Smyth ...
    A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered ... Read more

    $110.69 USD