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  • Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

    by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Neil Murphy, Anne Fogarty, Michelle Wang, Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak, Mary M. McGlynn, Lianghui LI, Adel Cheong0, Sylvie Mikowski1, Katherine O'Callaghan2, Michael G Cronin3, Molly Ferguson4, Deirdre Flynn5, Seán Golden6, Margarita Estévez-Saá7, Eoghan Smith8, Christine Cusick9, Gerry Smyth0, Hedwig Schwall1, Graham Matthews2, Joseph Valente3, Patricia Malone4, Jack Fennell5, Jennifer Mooney6, Keith O’Sullivan7, Brian Cliff8, Ondrej Pilný9, Hana Zahradníková0, Kersti Powell1, Paula Murphy2 ...
    Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Failing Heart

    by Eoghan Smith ...
    ‘Reading The Failing Heart is like taking a trip; part escape into another consciousness, part suffocating delusion. The story – or rather the scaffolding upon which Smith displays elegant philosophical architecture – follows a young scholar whose mother has just died. Estranged from his father after stealing his money, hounded by the ominous figure of his landlord, and oppressed with images of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • The Sea

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