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Book Dublin by Lamplight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael West
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-04-06
  • ISBN : 1350041130
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Dublin by Lamplight written by Michael West and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revived on the Abbey stage on 21 March 2017.

Book Reading Dubliners Again

Download or read book Reading Dubliners Again written by Garry M. Leonard and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Detective and the Cowboy," "Wondering Where All the Dust Comes From," "Ejaculations and Silence," and "Where the Corkscrew Was" these are Garry Leonard's chapter titles for his readings of four of the stories, "An Encounter," "Eveline," "The Boarding House," and "Clay." The titles convey the freshness and thoughtfulness that are indicative of all of Leonard's new readings of these fifteen often-read stories. Leonard begins with an excellent overview of Lacan and proceeds to examine each story in a separate chapter. Lacan's rethinking of human subjectivity plays throughout the book and ultimately unites it. Not only does Leonard's work preserve the complex interplay between Lacanian theory and Joyce's texts, but also completes another and no less significant project: the rescuing of Dubliners from the category of "easy Joyce." Throughout the readings the relevance of Lacan's ideas to feminist theory is emphasized in order to examine both what Lacan terms the "masquerade of femininity" and the equally illusory power structure of the "masculine subject." The frequent and jargon-free explications of Lacan's terms and theories, coupled with a close reading of each of the stories, makes this a book to be consulted by anyone wishing to explore new ways to approach Dubliners, new ways to read these rich stories again.

Book Dubliners

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Joyce
  • Publisher : Standard Ebooks
  • Release : 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Dubliners written by James Joyce and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there. The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accepted by a publisher—then later rejected again, multiple times. It took Joyce nine years to finally see his stories in print, but not before seeing a printer burn all but one copy of the proofs. Today Dubliners survives as a rich example of not just literary excellence, but of what everyday life was like for average Dubliners in their day. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Book Irish Theatre in the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Irish Theatre in the Twenty First Century written by Nicholas Grene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition of lyrical eloquence with a harsh and broken dramatic language. Companies such as Blue Raincoat, the Corn Exchange, and Pan Pan pioneered an avant-garde dramaturgy that no longer privileged the playwright. This led to new styles of production of classic Irish works, including the plays of Synge, mounted in their entirety by Druid. The changed environment led to a re-imagining of past Irish history in the work of Rough Magic and ANU, plays by Owen McCafferty, Stacey Gregg, and David Ireland, dramatizing the legacy of the Troubles, and adaptations of Greek tragedy by Marina Carr and others reflecting the conditions of modern Ireland. From 2015, the movement #WakingTheFeminists led to a sharpened awareness of gender. While male playwrights showed a toxic masculinity on the stage, a generation of female dramatists including Carr, Gregg, and Nancy Harris gave voice to the experiences of women long suppressed in conservative Ireland. For three separate periods, 2006, 2016, 2020-2, the author served as one of the judges for the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, attending all new productions across the island of Ireland. This allowed him to provide the detailed overview of the 'state of play' of Irish theatre in each of those times which punctuate the book as one of its most innovative features. Drawing also on interviews with Ireland's leading theatre makers, Grene provides readers with a close-up understanding of Irish theatre in a period when Ireland became for the first time a fully modernized, secular, and multi-ethnic society.

Book Clay

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Joyce
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 1443440167
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Clay written by James Joyce and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria, a laundress, is an older, unmarried woman with plans to attend her former foster child’s Halloween celebration. On her way to the party, Maria is reminded of her “old maid” status, and during one of the party’s games further confirms her marital future when choosing a lump of clay over a wedding ring. Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. First published in 1914, the stories draw on themes relevant to the time such as nationalism and Ireland’s national identity, and cement Joyce’s reputation for brutally honest and revealing depictions of everyday Irish life. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Book Joyce Effects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Attridge
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-03-16
  • ISBN : 9780521777889
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Joyce Effects written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

Book Prostitution and Irish Society  1800 1940

Download or read book Prostitution and Irish Society 1800 1940 written by Maria Luddy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland.

Book The Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Joyce
  • Publisher : Coyote Canyon Press
  • Release : 2008-10
  • ISBN : 0979660793
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book The Dead written by James Joyce and published by Coyote Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the house of the husband's two elderly aunts. A shocking confession made by the husband's wife toward the end of the story showcases the power of Joyce's greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.

Book Census of Ireland  1911

Download or read book Census of Ireland 1911 written by Ireland. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Church Advocate

Download or read book The Irish Church Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1876-04 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Remains of Maisie Duggan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carmel Winters
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-12-05
  • ISBN : 1350023175
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The Remains of Maisie Duggan written by Carmel Winters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now I'm dead there'll be changes. I won't keep rolling over. I won't wag my tail at every insult and injury! Kathleen Duggan has rushed home to Ireland upon hearing the news that her mother, Maisie, has died. Only when she gets back to the house, she finds that her mother is alive and well. Almost. However, after a routine car accident, Maisie believes that she is now dead and wandering around the homestead, awaiting her funeral. Still able to talk to her childish adult son and her violent, temperamental husband, she will no longer be silenced by the male-dominated, pugnacious atmosphere that has kept her quiet all these years. So when Kathleen comes back for the 'funeral', Maisie expects to find her final resting place, safe from the threat of domestic violence once and for all. The Remains of Maisie Duggan received its world premiere on the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in autumn 2016.

Book Contemporary Irish Theatre

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  • Author : Charlotte McIvor
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031550129
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Contemporary Irish Theatre written by Charlotte McIvor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engendered Trope in Joyce s Dubliners

Download or read book Engendered Trope in Joyce s Dubliners written by Earl G. Ingersoll and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl G. Ingersoll convincingly argues that his study is a "return to Lacan," just as Lacan himself believed his own work to be a "return to Freud." In this study of trope and gender in Dubliners, Ingersoll follows Lacan’s example by returning to explore more fully the usefulness of the earlier Lacanian insights stressing the importance of language. Returning to the semiotic—as opposed to the more traditional psychoanalytic—Lacan, Ingersoll opts for the Lacan who follows Roman Jakobson back to early Freud texts in which Freud happened upon the major structuring principles of similarity and displacement. Jakobson interprets these principles as metaphor and metonymy; Lacan employs these two tropes as the means of representing transformation and desire. Thus, psychic functions meet literary texts in the space of linguistic representation through the signifier: metaphor is a signifier for a repressed signified, while metonymy is a signifier that displaces another. Rejecting traditional psychoanalytic readings of Dubliners, Ingersoll’s New Psychoanalytic Criticism embraces Shoshana Felman’s view that psychoanalysis is not a body of truths to be applied to literature but rather a literature in itself to be read intertextually with what we more conventionally consider literary texts. In its theoretical framework, this study is Lacanian not by following Lacan as the traditional psychoanalytic critic would follow Freud or Jung as the master explicator of the literary text but by doing Lacan. Ingersoll credits Lacan not as the scientist Freud tried and failed to become but as the poet Freud was, especially in his earlier period. Basing his idea of the connections between gender and the tropes in the writings of feminist theorists and critics such as Luce Irigaray, Jane Gallop, and Barbara Johnson, Ingersoll argues that sex and gender are not necessarily linked. In Dublin, the capital of a patriarchal society, Joyce reveals the relevance of the opposition between metaphor/motion/empowerment as the "masculine" and metonymy/confinement/vulnerability as the "feminine." In this context, metaphor must be privileged over metonymy as "masculinity" is privileged over "femininity"— not because what is is right but because Joyce is describing a world that readers have always recognized as morally and spiritually deficient.

Book Joyce Annotated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Gifford
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 0520046102
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Joyce Annotated written by Don Gifford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

Book Routledge Library Editions  James Joyce

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions James Joyce written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 2084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues 8 books on James Joyce originally published between 1966 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Joyce’s most respected works, including Finnegans Wake, Dubliners and Ulysses. As well as providing an in-depth analyses of Joyce’s work, this collection also looks at James Joyce in the context of the Modernist movement as a whole. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.