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  • The Irish Bildungsroman

    by Gregory Castle, Mary Mullen, Christina Morin, Lindsay Janssen, Heidi Hansson, Elizabeth Grubgeld, Julie Anne Stevens, Barry Devine0, Patrick Bixby1, Fiona McCann2, Molly Ferguson3, Ellen Scheible4, Pilar Villar-Argáiz5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Standish O'Grady's Cuculain

    A Critical Edition

    by Patrick Bixby, Renee Fox, Joseph Valente, Micheal McAteer ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries, from W. B. Yeats and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unaccompanied Traveler

    The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy

    Edited by Patrick Bixby ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as "the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . . insofar as she let herself be known to the public at all." An abiding interest in sacred sites and ancient civilizations took Murphy down the Amazon and over the Andes, into the jungles of Southeast Asia and onto the deserts of the Middle East, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quotidian Beckett

    Art of Everyday Life

    by Patrick Bixby ...
    Series series Elements in Beckett Studies
    Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption. Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life explores the writer's evolving response to ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • License to Travel

    A Cultural History of the Passport

    by Patrick Bixby ...
    This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will:Peruse the passports ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nietzsche and Irish modernism

    by Patrick Bixby ...
    Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as ... Read more

    Was $91.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • A History of Irish Modernism

    Edited by Gregory Castle, Patrick Bixby ...
    A History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting, music, radio, and architecture. Each chapter considers a particular aspect of Irish culture and reflects on its contribution to modernism at large. In addition to new research on the Irish Revival and cultural nationalism, which places them squarely in ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

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    License to Travel

    A Cultural History of the Passport

    by Patrick Bixby ...
    Narrated by Tim Fannon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    Discover the surprising global history of how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience to define the modern world.License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945-2020

    by Patrick Hayes ...
    Series series Oxford History of Life-Writing
    With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the internet, transformed the possibilities for self-expression. By the end of the timespan covered in this book life-writing was no ... Read more

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  • Pedagogic Criticism

    Reconfiguring University English Studies

    by Ben Knights ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English is characterized as a ‘boundary’ subject, active in dialogue across a number of imagined borders, especially those between academic and non-specialized readerships. While the subject discipline ... Read more

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  • Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

    Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form*.* It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles written by specialists from various European countries and includes an interview with US novelist ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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