Literature Studies

Includes essays that offer ecocritical readings of Irish literary and cultural texts of various genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and the visual image. This title places emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing of the twentieth century but also is in fact rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic mythology.

A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike. Coverings all historical periods - early modern, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, modern and contemporary, it closely reads poetry through many prisms - mythology, gender, history, the nation.

Balancing Acts gathers together interviews and conversations between Gerald Dawe and a wide cast of interlocutors.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors - Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett - this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind..

Journalism is a powerful agent of change: political, social and economic. This book compiles chapters by renowned field authors and charts this power across parts of the world as diverse as China, Latin America and Africa.

The ultimate gifty celebration of all things bookish.

This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises.