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  • Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism

    The Wearing of the Deep Green

    by Donna L. Potts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the Irish environmental movement, which began gaining momentum in the 1970s, has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers, artists, and musicians. It examines Irish environmental writing, music, and art within their cultural contexts, considers how postcolonial ecocriticism might usefully be applied to Ireland, and analyzes the rhetoric of Irish ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition

    by Donna L. Potts ...
    In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and the Republic: a postcolonial critique of British imperialism; a response to modernity, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy

    by Laura A. Gray-Rosendale, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Hélène Bigras-Dutrisac, Lynn Z. Bloom, Ari Burford, Katherine Chelsea, Courtney Cox, Sally J. Kenney, Marissa Korbel, Melinda A. Mills0, Donna L. Potts1, Katrina M. Powell2, Tanya Serisier3, Lena Ziegler4 ...
    Powerfully written and theoretically grounded, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it. Contributors analyze the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Strohm ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... Read more

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  • A Book of Migrations

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    A rambling philosophical work of travel writing with descriptive musings on Irish history and heritage from the award-winning author of Men Explain Things to MeIn this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, ... Read more

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  • Managing Monsters

    by Marina Warner ...
    In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current ... Read more

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  • Seamus Heaney (Text Only)

    by Helen Vendler ...
    A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.Among Heaney’s many published collections are ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘North’, ‘Field Work’, ‘Station Island’ and ‘Spirit Level’ (May 1996), which was that rarest of things: a collection of poetry that was also a bestseller. Yet despite his popularity, Heaney’s poetry can be difficult ... Read more

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  • Imagining the Pagan Past

    Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

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    Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state.This book shows how ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

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  • The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastoral poet inspired by nostalgia. The Achievement of Seamus Heaney, by the eminent critic John Wilson Foster, emphasizes the high seriousness and ... Read more

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  • The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard

    Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London

    by Sondra L. Hausner ...
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