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The Economy of Ulysses
This original and wide-ranging study explores the "economies" of Ulysses using a number of different critical and theoretical methods. Not only do the economic circumstances of the …
Finnegans Wake
This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistic detail from which Joyce built the book.The opening chapters describe …
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism
Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often …
Sengoidelc
David Stifter's Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the …
The Anti-Modernism of Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In this study of Joyce's ""Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"", the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the novel. He argues that …
Literary Drowning
Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, …
Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry
In this, the first sustained feminist analysis of Yeats, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford resituates his love poems in their cultural and historical context. Yeats himself said that …
Respectability and Reform
In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of …
Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland
Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and …
Yeats and Artistic Power
The first book to consider William Butler Yeats's aesthetic of artistic power, demonstrating the centrality in his work-from his earliest essay to the great poems and plays of his …
Anglo-Irish Autobiography
As a volatile meeting point of personal and public experience, autobiography exists in a mutually influential relationship with the literature history, private writings, and …
Reading Roddy Doyle
In this anaysis of Roddy Doyle's first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelists, he also needs to be seen …