The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilson Foster |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2006-12-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521679961 |
This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilson Foster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9781139001212 |
"This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes and authors. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day."--[Source inconnue].
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph N. Cleary |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2014-08-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107031419 |
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilson Foster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
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The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel PDF eBook |
Author | John Richetti |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1996-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139825046 |
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
Title | The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Attridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2004-06-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110749494X |
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 2002-08-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494486 |
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.