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  • Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction

    The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
    Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland.Scheible dissects the ways that 'the woman-as-symbol' remains consistent in Irish literary representations of national experience in Irish fiction and shows how this ... Read more

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  • Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Barry Devine, Ellen Scheible ...
    Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
    A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century presents examples of bold, innovative pedagogical techniques instructors have used to adapt the study of Joyce’s work for the contemporary classroom. Leading Joyce scholars share ... Read more

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  • The Irish Bildungsroman

    Series series Irish Studies
    The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce’s famed book of short stories, Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention Dubliners has received since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers of the stories still rely on and embrace old, outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book. Challenging these ... Read more

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  • Teaching John McGahern's "The Dark"

    Series series Irish Studies
    Teaching John McGahern's "The Dark" provides an indispensable companion to the classic Irish novel. With an introduction aimed at first-time readers and four critical essays, this edition guides readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While The Darkwas initially banned in Ireland for obscenity, scholars now demonstrate that McGahern’s novel of adolescence is not obscene, but ... Read more

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  • Sally Rooney

    Perspectives and Approaches

    Series series Contemporary Irish Writers
    Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical ... Read more

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    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

    Edited by Liam Harte ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety ... Read more

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  • Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007

    by Liam Harte ...
    Series series Reading the Novel
    Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland’s most eminent writers.This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irish novel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the English Short Story

    Edited by Dominic Head ...
    The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

    Edited by Anne Fogarty, Eugene O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published or performed in the twenty-first century, this volume explores genres, modes and styles of writing that are current, relevant and distinctive in today’s classrooms. Examining a ... Read more

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  • Joyce's Ghosts

    Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

    by Luke Gibbons ...
    "A deeply original work . . . part of a refreshing new wave of literary criticism that is written in clear, hospitable prose, driven by genuine passion." — Irish TimesFor decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure ... Read more

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