Literature Studies

This book is for both general and scholarly readers interested in literary and cultural history. It is a survey of 200 years of Irish writing, its local and global contexts; it offers analytic accounts of works and authors (including Swift, Burke, Joyce, Bowen, Heaney), and their socio-political backgrounds.

Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more. Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination.

Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor -- .

Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first full study of the development Heaney's prose poetics and their central theme, the adequacy of poetry, as a force for good in the face of history's violence.

Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid accounts of their experiences as women writing.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

A towering figure in the musical and cultural evolution of modern Ireland, Brian Boydell (1917-2000) has been described as a 'renaissance man' and by President Mary Robinson as a 'tireless wheeler-dealer for music'

SUPPOSE A SENTENCE is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

Featuring plays and poetry from all over the world, including Latin American and African fiction, this book offers a deeper look into the famed fiction of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and more, as in-depth literary criticism and interesting authorial biographies give each work of literature a new meaning.