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  • A Poetics of Dissensus

    Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland

    by Fiona McCann ...
    Series Book 59 - Reimagining Ireland
    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 ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Presence of the Past

    Problematising Temporalities in Irish Studies

    Edited by Hélène Lecossois, Claire Dubois, Fiona McCann, Helen Penet ...
    Series Book 148 - Reimagining Ireland
    This book provides a scholarly investigation of multiple temporalities in Irish cultural life. It brings together fifteen essays written by historians, visual art and literary and cultural critics, the purpose of which is to stimulate forms of reading and approaches that are more accommodating both to Ireland’s colonial history and to a contemporary present dominated, among other issues, by ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • The Carceral Network in Ireland

    History, Agency and Resistance

    Edited by Fiona McCann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, the methodological approaches adopted across this book range from the historical and archival to the sociological, ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Irish Bildungsroman

    by Gregory Castle, Mary Mullen, Christina Morin, Lindsay Janssen, Heidi Hansson, Elizabeth Grubgeld, Julie Anne Stevens, Barry Devine0, Patrick Bixby1, Fiona McCann2, Molly Ferguson3, Ellen Scheible4, Pilar Villar-Argáiz5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

    Edited by Liam Harte ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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  • Irish Children's Literature and Culture

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