Download or read book Joycean Occasions written by Janet Egleson Dunleavy and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as papers at the 1987 James Joyce conference, this collection of essays is concerned with Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and a variety of intriguing contexts by established Joyceans. Contributors include Fritz Senn, Richard Corballis, Shari Benstock, Bernard Benstock, Zack Bowen, Patrick A. McCarthy, Daniel P. Gunn, Suzette Henke, Susan Brienza, Vincent J. Cheng, Sidney Feshbach, and Mary Reynolds.

Download or read book New Perspectives on James Joyce written by Asier Altuna García de Salazar and published by Universidad de Deusto. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on James Joyce Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me! gathers a selection of papers delivered at the 20th Conference of the James Joyce Spanish Society. The book includes studies on relevant issues still raised by Joyce’s work, such as Joyce’s handling of time and memory, Joyce and the Jesuits, Joyce and literary connections, Joyce in translation, new eco-critical readings of Joyce’s work, Joyce in the light of textual linguistics or how to render Joyce more accessible.

Download or read book A Short History of Ireland s Writers written by Prof. A. Norman Jeffares and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work. The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O'Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Flann O'Brien to contemporaries Julia O'Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.

Download or read book Celtic Woman written by Treasa O'Driscoll and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d expect. This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page. Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. O’Driscoll’s life entwines with musicians, poets, teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar drunkards. Their lives all become a single interwoven tapestry of common meaning connected at the level of the soul.

Download or read book Dominant Themes and Ironic Techniques in the Works of J M Synge written by Dr. James Kilroy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on James Clarence Mangan written by S. Sturgeon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

Download or read book An Irish Childhood written by Alexander Norman Jeffares and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Neoplatonic Aesthetics written by Liana Cheney and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies.

Download or read book A Companion to James Joyce written by Richard Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses

Download or read book Yeats and A E written by Peter Kuch and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Irish Literary Movement written by Alexander Norman Jeffares and published by Gill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ireland s Women written by Katie Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Irish women - known and unknown, real and invented - as their compatriots have described and interpreted them. They range from figures in history to the hairdresser, terrorist's wife and nurse. The editors draw upon mythological tales, letters, biographies, autobiographies, newspapers and official reports as well as poems, novels, stories, plays, recordings and songs to form this sympathetic selection that conveys fresh insights into the varied and vital experience of Irish women.

Download or read book Big Book of Baby Names and Announcements written by Sandra Buzbee Bailey and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

Download or read book The Last Minstrels written by Ronald Schuchard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech.

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.