Literature Studies

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.

A Neat and accessible introduction the life, work and times of W. B. Yeats.

The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.

Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even - perhaps especially - when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever written out of mere spite. In most cases, the motivation is disappointed idealism. Critics are people who love art and who hate to see it traduced. Hence the critic's sempiternal cry: You're doing it wrong. What the critic wants is for you to do it better. In You're Doing It Wrong, Kevin Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is.

There is far more to Jack Yeats than meets the eye, and it is to be hoped that he will soon be recognised as deserving of a place in the forefront of Irish letters. In recent years, however, his greatness as a painter has eclipsed his writings and this work seeks to redress the position.

Starts from Heaney's awareness in the new millennium of ""something far more important in my mental formation than cultural nationalism or the British presence or any of that stuff - namely, my early religious education."" The book then examines the full trajectory of Heaney's religious beliefs as represented in his poetry, prose, and interviews.