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“dr john greaney”

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  • The Distance of Irish Modernism

    Memory, Narrative, Representation

    by Dr John Greaney ...
    The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Irish Modernisms

    Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities

    Edited by Paul Fagan, Dr John Greaney, Tamara Radak ...
    This book focuses on previously unexplored gaps, limitations and avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical account of this conceptual field. Foregrounding interfaces between literary, visual, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, these essays introduce previously peripheral writers, artists ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

    Edited by Morag Shiach ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns ... Read more

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  • Modernism

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    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:details the ... Read more

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  • Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present

    by Chris Baldick ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major ... Read more

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  • Difference In View: Women And Modernism

    Edited by Gabriele Griffin ...
    This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide ... Read more

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  • Writing the City

    Urban Visions and Literary Modernism

    by Desmond Harding ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Modern Selves

    Essays on Modern British and American Autobiography

    by Philip Dodd ...
    This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works. ... Read more

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  • The Extinct Scene

    Late Modernism and Everyday Life

    by Thomas Davis ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate ... Read more

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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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