Literature Studies

Illuminating and authoritative treatise on 'how a poem works', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor of poetry - now in paperback.

These essays will engage readers interested in Ireland's history between the Second World War and the Troubles, with analysis of Ireland's literary connections to Europe and America, surveys of Irish censorship, publishing and criticism, and discussions of individual authors including Sean O'Faolain, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern.

Analysing Hazlitt's radicalism and its foundations in Unitarian culture, Paulin argues that he was in effect a republican epic poet in prose - as distinct from prose poet - and a crucially important critic who has been given nothing like his due. He offers a fully rounded literary portrait with great depth and detail.

Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney's Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney's poetry.

This concise new work shows that James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is as fresh today as it was when first published over a century ago. And why.

The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

The complexities and nuances of this exchange-subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified-provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.

Contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.

A penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature-telling the region's story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.