Literature Studies

"The Anthropocene" evokes the escalating global ecological crisis, including climate change, deforestation, the treatment of animals, oceanic pollution and over-fishing, extinctions, land-use, plastic pollution and the waste crisis, the eco-vandalism of mining and the fashion industry, biodiversity and ecocide generally.

Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way.

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective.

Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Litera-ture contains a selection of the papers given at the fifth triennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature held in Belfast in 1985, chaired by Professor John Cronin. It includes essays on Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, J. S.

Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.

This bilingual collection of essays contains eighteen essays of literary and linguistic interest in Modern Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages.

An accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene.

A decolonised reading list for anyone who wants to redress the racial bias of their education and to rethink what are considered the 'classics' of literature.