Author: J. Keating-MillerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230275087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature
Author: J. Keating-MillerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230275087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech.
Sociolinguistics in Ireland
Author: R. HickeyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137453478
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Sociolinguistics in Ireland takes a fresh look at the interface of language and society in present-day Ireland. In a series of specially commissioned chapters it examines the relationship of the Irish and English languages and traces their dynamic development both in history and at present.
Patrick McCabe’s Ireland
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004389008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Patrick McCabe’s Ireland offers literary scholars’ exploration of the significant fiction produced by this author from the early 1990s and 2000s.
Strangers, Migrants, Exiles
Author: Frauke ReitemeierPublisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 386395033X
Category : Identity (Psychology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture
Author: J. TwyningPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284706
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history.
Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society
Author: R. HowellsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283548
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 331
A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.
Literature and Film, Dispositioned
Author: Alice GavinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137295457
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus.
On Voice in Poetry
Author: David Nowell SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137308230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
Author: Regenia GagnierPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230277543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.
Memory and Imagination in Film
Author: P. LombardoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137319437
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative uses of the history of cinema as well as of other media.
