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  1. Landscape poetics
    Scottish textual practice, 1928 - present
    Author: Szuba, Monika
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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  2. The British industrial canal
    reading the waterways from the eighteenth century to the anthropocene
    Author: Matthews, Jodie
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Wales Press, Cardiff

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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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  3. <<A>> poetics of dissensus
    confronting violence in contemporary prose writing from the North of Ireland
    Author: McCann, Fiona
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

    Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt... more

     

    Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated and questioned without rekindling conflict. This book focuses on a number of fictional and non-fictional texts published during the last two decades and analyses, through the prism of French cultural philosopher Jacques Ranciere''s work, the emergence of an aesthetics of dissensus within these novels, short stories, graphic nove

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035306286; 3035306281
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; 59
    Subjects: English literature / Northern Ireland / History and criticism; English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; Violence in literature; Social conflict in literature; College readers; English language / Rhetoric; English language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; English literature / Irish authors / (OCoLC)fst00912074; Social conflict in literature / (OCoLC)fst01122407; Violence in literature / (OCoLC)fst01167282
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    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Between Understatement and Overkill: Anna Burns' ""No Bones and Little Constructions""; Chapter 2. 'The Post-past City': Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly; Chapter 3. Postcolonial Gothic and Body Politics in Recent Novels by Patrick McCabe; Chapter 4. The Politics of Identity and the Language of Dissensus in Ciaran Carson's ""Exchange Place""; Chapter 5. Whodunnit or Who Didn't Do it? Authority and Poetic (In)Justice in Eoin McNamee's ""The Ultras, The Blue Tango"" and ""Orchid Blue""

    Chapter 6. Consensus and Dissensus in Fictional Representations of Working Class Protestantism and LoyalismChapter 7. Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction; Chapter 8. Subverting Authority or Reinforcing Convention? Garth Ennis's Graphic Novels; Chapter 9. Troubling Narratives of the Troubles: Commemoration, Sensationalism and Author-ity; Bibliography; Index
  4. The British industrial canal
    reading the waterways from the eighteenth century to the anthropocene
    Author: Matthews, Jodie
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Wales Press, Cardiff

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  5. Landscape poetics
    Scottish textual practice, 1928 - present
    Author: Szuba, Monika
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  6. Irish literature and the First World War
    Author: Phillips, Terry
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main

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  7. Charles Darwin's looking glass
    the theory of evolution and the life of its author in contemporary British fiction and non-fiction
    Author: Oramus, Dominika
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main

    The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study... more

     

    The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the contemporary humanities and how literary conventions are used to make scientific and popular-science texts intelligible and attractive. &ltI>Charles Darwin's Looking Glass &lt/I>shows how and why today's culture gazes upon the myth of Darwin, his theory, and his life in order to find its own reflectio

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653052060; 3653052068
    Series: Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; volume 11
    Subjects: English literature / 21st century / History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Natural selection in literature; Literature and science / Great Britain; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- In literature; English literature --21st century -- History and criticism; Literature and science -- Great Britain; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; Evolution (Biology) in literature / (OCoLC)fst00917331; Literature / (OCoLC)fst00999953; Literature and science / (OCoLC)fst01000093; Natural selection in literature / (OCoLC)fst01921262
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / In literature; Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / (OCoLC)fst00029136
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    Cover; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction: Charles Darwin's Looking Glass; The Voyages of Charles Darwin in Recent Fiction and Non-Fiction ; History and Simulation in Thorvald Steen's Don Carlos and Giovanni and Roger McDonald's ""Mr. Darwin's Shooter""; Depictions of Emma Darwin in Recent British Non-Fiction; Recent Fiction about Charles Darwin: Peter Nichols, Harry Thompson, and John Darnton; References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel

    Echoes of the Mid-19th-Century Spiritual Crisis in Selected Contemporary Texts Referencing Charles Darwin Darwin's Problem with Human Ancestry as Reflected in Recent Fiction; Darwinism and the Humanities; The Motif of Human Evolution in Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction ; Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting; References
  8. Flaming embers
    literary testimonies on ageing and desire
    Contributor: Bureu Ramos, Nela (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Contributor: Bureu Ramos, Nela (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035100457; 3035100454; 3034304382; 9783034304382
    Series: Spanish perspectives on English and American literature, communication and culture ; v. 3
    Subjects: English literature / English-speaking countries / History and criticism; Desire in literature; Aging in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Aging in literature / (OCoLC)fst00800359; Desire in literature / (OCoLC)fst00891364; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989
    Scope: 1 online resource (361 pages)
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    Table of Contents; NELA BUREU RAMOS Introduction: The Aching of Desire 7; EMMA DOMÍNGUEZ RUÉA Woman's Worth: Perceptions of Desirein Mature Women in Ellen Glasgow's Short Fiction 23; MARKUS M. MÜLLERBack to the Body: 'Fantastic' Old Womenand Pleasure Regained in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Suzette Mayr's The Widows 39; BILLY GRAY' Your stay must be a becoming': Ageing and Desire in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace 67; CARMEN ZAMORANO LLENA 'The figures of the far past come back at the end': Unmasking the Desired Self through Reminiscencein Late Adulthood in John Banville's The Sea 87

    GENE WALZ Desire and Aging in Manitoba Movies 113ISABEL SANTAULÀRIA I CAPDEVILA From Forajidos to Misfits: Desiring Old Times in Deadwood 137; RACHED KHALIFA' I am unbroken': Aging, Ireland, and Political Desire in W.B. Yeats 161; BRIAN WORSFOLD Spur or Pitfall? Aged Men's Desire in Philip Roth's Everyman (2006), André Brink's Before I Forget (2004), and Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller (2005) 187; MARICEL ORÓ PIQUERAS The Indian Rebirth of the English Retired in Deborah Moggach's These Foolish Things 205

    DENNIS COOLEY" what it was I knew my father felt, what I felt": hidden grief /unspoken desire in Robert Kroetsch's Seed Catalogue 219ELENA PÉREZ SERRANO The ICM (Irish Catholic Mammy) and the Desirefor Self-Reinvention in the Walsh Series 275; NÚRIA CASADO GUAL Who Is 'the Other within'? Exploring the Kaleidoscopeof Internal Alterity through Laurent Cantet's and Kevin Rodney Sullivan's Films on Mature Female Desire 305; MARTA MIQUEL BALDELLOU Wishing Independence, Pleading Desire: The Dualityof (Fe) Male Ageing in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day 333; Index 353; Notes on Contributors 357
  9. Lands of desire and loss
    British colonial and postcolonial spaces
    Author: Brazzelli, Nicoletta
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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  10. No man's land
    Irish women and the cultural present
    Author: O'Connor, Sarah
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035301083; 3035301085
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; v. 25
    Subjects: Irish literature / Women authors / History and criticism; Irish literature / 20th century / History and criticism; English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; English literature / Women authors / History and criticism; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Irish literature / Translations into English / History and criticism; Regionalism in literature; Women and literature / Ireland; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; English literature / Irish authors / (OCoLC)fst00912074; English literature / Women authors / (OCoLC)fst00912218; Irish literature / (OCoLC)fst00979030; Irish literature / Translations into English / (OCoLC)fst01766716; Irish literature / Women authors / (OCoLC)fst00979040; Regionalism in literature / (OCoLC)fst01093231; Women and literature / (OCoLC)fst01177093; Frauenliteratur / (DE-603)085336548 / (DE-588c)4113622-6; Zweisprachigkeit / (DE-603)085191868 / (DE-588c)4068227-4; Übersetzung / (DE-603)085170585 / (DE-588c)4061418-9
    Other subjects: Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís / 1954- / Criticism and interpretation; Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala / 1952- / Criticism and interpretation; McGuckian, Medbh / 1950- / Criticism and interpretation; Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís / 1954-; Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala / 1952-; McGuckian, Medbh / 1950- / (OCoLC)fst00082461; Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala / 1952- / (OCoLC)fst00195728; Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís / 1954- / (OCoLC)fst01486746
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    Women in twentieth-century Ireland: redrawing the map -- Cultural change -- Theorizing the interstitial space -- Bilingual realities -- Dancers dancing: in between, the in between, the in between, that is the truth and that is the story -- Cailíní beaga ghleann na mbláth: snámhaithe den scoth (the little girls of ghleann na mbláth: exceptional swimmers) -- Liombó samhlaíochta and the balakhana -- Medbh mcguckian and nuala ní dhomhnaill: collaboration in translation -- Translation as textual pregnant embodiment -- Postscript: picking up the pieces
  11. Breaking the mould
    literary representations of Irish Catholicism
    Contributor: Maher, Eamon (Publisher); O'Brien, Eugene (Publisher)
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

    Catholicism has played a major role in Irish society for centuries. At times, it is perceived in a negative light, although there are positive aspects such as education and concern for the poor. This book examines how Ireland's writers have portrayed... more

     

    Catholicism has played a major role in Irish society for centuries. At times, it is perceived in a negative light, although there are positive aspects such as education and concern for the poor. This book examines how Ireland's writers have portrayed Catholicism's relationship with the country

     
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    Contributor: Maher, Eamon (Publisher); O'Brien, Eugene (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035300840; 3035300844
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; v. 36
    Subjects: English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; English literature / Catholic authors / History and criticism; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; American literature / Irish American authors / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Catholics in literature; Christianity in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; American literature / (OCoLC)fst00807113; American literature / Irish American authors / (OCoLC)fst00807188; Catholics in literature / (OCoLC)fst00849332; Christianity in literature / (OCoLC)fst00859755; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; English literature / Catholic authors / (OCoLC)fst00912015; English literature / Irish authors / (OCoLC)fst00912074; Literature / (OCoLC)fst00999953; Literatur / (DE-603)085097128 / (DE-588c)4035964-5; Katholizismus <Motiv> / (DE-603)089098773 / (DE-588c)4489454-5; Irlandbild / (DE-603)086708546 / (DE-588c)4311215-8
    Scope: 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages)
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    Introduction / Eamon Maher and Eugene O'brien-- Precursors of Change. The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / Jeanne I. Lakatos -- "In the buginning is the woid": Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce's Ulysses / CATHY McGlynn -- The Donkey and the Sabbath / Mary Pierse -- Developments in the Irish and Irish-American Novel. Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / Sharon Tighe-Mooney -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / James Silas Rogers -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / Eamon Maher -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / Peter Guy -- The Poets and the Playwrights. "Any Catholics among you ...?": Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / Eugene O'brien -- "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / John McDonagh -- "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / Victor Merriman -- Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / Tony Corbett
  12. Affecting Irishness
    negotiating cultural identity within and beyond the nation
    Contributor: Byrne, James P. (Publisher); Kirwan, Padraig (Publisher); O'Sullivan, Michael (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford, UK

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    Contributor: Byrne, James P. (Publisher); Kirwan, Padraig (Publisher); O'Sullivan, Michael (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035300819; 303530081X
    Series: Reimagining Ireland ; 2
    Subjects: English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Irish literature / 20th century / History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Nationalism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Group identity / Ireland; Ireland / Civilization / 20th century; Nationalism in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Civilization / (OCoLC)fst00862898; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; English literature / Irish authors / (OCoLC)fst00912074; Group identity / (OCoLC)fst00948442; Identity (Psychology) in literature / (OCoLC)fst00966910; Irish literature / (OCoLC)fst00979030; National characteristics, Irish, in literature / (OCoLC)fst01033453; Nationalism in literature / (OCoLC)fst01033899; Literatur; Nationalbewusstsein (Motiv); Kulturelle Identität (Motiv); Nationalbewusstsein; Kulturelle Identität
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    Introduction / James Byrne, Padraig Kirwan and Michael O'Sullivan -- Theorising Irish studies. Irish studies, the postcolonial paradigm and the comparative mandate -- / Raphael Ingelbien -- Who's he when he's at home?: Spenser and Irishness / Oona Frawley -- Irishness and the body: the presence of the body in the debates on poverty in the early nineteenth century / Anne-Catherine Lobo -- Rebordering territories. The Ulster Scots and the 'greening' of Ireland: a precarious belonging? / Linda M. Hagan -- 'Ma right insane yirwanny us Jimmy?: Irishness in modern Scottish writing / Niall O'Gallagher -- The leid, the pratoe and the buik: northern cultural markers in the works of James Orr / Carol Baraniuk -- No rootless colonist: John Hewitt's regionalist approach to identity / Aoileann Ni Eige -- 'Other' Irelands. Representing travellers / Maureen T. Reddy -- Irish multicultural fiction: metaphors of miscegenation and interracial romance / Jason King -- Subversive identities: femininity, sexuality and 'Irishness' in novels by Edna O'Brien / Iris Lindahl-Raittila -- Transnational Irishness. A 'sympathetic look': documentary humanism and Irish identity in Dorothea Lange's Irish country people / Justin Carville -- Irish-American identity and the Irish language / Thomas W. Ihde -- Shades of green and orange: Irish identity in diaspora / William H. Mulligan, Jr -- Muldoon's palimpsestic Irishness / Florence Schneider -- Masking, affectation and play. The voice of Pierce Brosnan / Ruth Barton -- Shades, minstrel and majestic / Daniel Tobin -- Self-contradiction in a small place: Anne Devlin's other at the edge of life? / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
  13. Redefinitions of Irish identity
    a postnationalist approach
    Contributor: Nordin, Irene Gilsenan (Publisher); Zamorano Llena, Carmen (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

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    Contributor: Nordin, Irene Gilsenan (Publisher); Zamorano Llena, Carmen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035300215; 3035300216
    Series: Cultural identity studies ; 12
    Subjects: English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Group identity in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Nationalism / Ireland / History / 20th century; Postcolonialism / Ireland; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature / (OCoLC)fst00911989; English literature / Irish authors / (OCoLC)fst00912074; Group identity in literature / (OCoLC)fst00948452; Literature / (OCoLC)fst00999953; National characteristics, Irish, in literature / (OCoLC)fst01033453; Nationalism / (OCoLC)fst01033832; Nationalism in literature / (OCoLC)fst01033899; Postcolonialism / (OCoLC)fst01073032; Postcolonialism in literature / (OCoLC)fst01073035; Literatur; Nationalismus <Motiv>; Postkolonialismus <Motiv>
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    Introduction -- Irish neutrality: from nationalism to postnationalism -- Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet: Hubert Butler's perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland / Billy Gray -- The search for global Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain / Miriam O'Kane Mara -- Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic games in Rocky road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the ash / Sean Crosson -- "Who put the ball in the English net": the privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger's In high Germany / Damien Shortt -- The postmodern promise of Robert Macliam Wilson's fiction / Matt Mcguire -- Gocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena -- Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities / David Cregan-- "Scattering us like seed": Dermot Bolger's postnationalist Ireland / Paula Murphy -- "What ish my nation": nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín / Grace Tighe Ledwidge -- The postnationalist crisis: theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones / Catherine Rees -- Elegy and celebration: landscape, place and dwelling in the poetry of moya Cannon / Irene Gilsenan Nordin -- The inner life of the nation: religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama / Ulf Dantanus