Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages: 240
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SKU: V9780230219861
ISBN: 9780230219861

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Poetry and Translation in Northern Ireland: Dislocations in Contempora...

Rui Carvalho Homem

Hardback. This new study offers a critical reading of the poetry and translations of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. It demonstrates that their 'original' verse as well as their versions of other authors are, in each case, different manifestations of particular and consistently pursued poetics. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.

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Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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SKU: V9780230221161
ISBN: 9780230221161

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Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia

Eoin Flannery

Hardcover. A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body of work as well as positioning Irish postcolonial criticism within the wider postcolonial field. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 448.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages: 280
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SKU: V9780230224063
ISBN: 9780230224063

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€ 67.12

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Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature

Jennifer Keating-Miller

Hardcover. 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. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 2AFR; CFB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.

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Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of pages: 200
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SKU: V9780230237506
ISBN: 9780230237506

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Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland

Peter Mahon

Hardcover. Using the work of Rene Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998). Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
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SKU: V9780230576438
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Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation

Melissa Sihra (Editor)

Paperback. Featuring original essays by leading scholars, this book, now available in paperback for the first time, explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century and engages with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights to re-evaluate familiar traditions. Editor(s): Sihra, Melissa. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages: 264
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SKU: V9780230577916
ISBN: 9780230577916

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Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover's Manipulation of Modernism

Claire A. Culleton

Hardcover. Several years ago on a whim, Culleton requested James Joyce's FBI file. Hoover had Joyce under surveillance as a suspected Communist, and the chain of cross references that Culleton followed from Joyce's file lead her to obscenity trials and, less obviously, to a plot to assassinate Irish labour leader Philip Larkin. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JKVF; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave/Macmillan New York
Number of pages: 256
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SKU: V9780312235536
ISBN: 9780312235536

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Elizabeth Bowen

Eibhear Walshe

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Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
Condition: New
SKU: V9780716529163
ISBN: 9780716529163

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€ 89.52

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Samuel Beckett's Novel, Watt

Gottfried Buttner

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Publication date: 1985
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr Philadelphia
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SKU: V9780812279320
ISBN: 9780812279320

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€ 116.07

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Reading the Ground: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella

Brian John

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Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press Washington DC
Edition: New edition
Number of pages: 275
Condition: New
SKU: V9780813208381
ISBN: 9780813208381

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€ 45.50

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The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 172...

Liam Harte

Hardcover. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 342
Condition: New
SKU: V9781403949875
ISBN: 9781403949875