Results for "Deane, Seamus"

James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and techniqueThe first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his ra... Read More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works—featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the ... Read More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of se... Read More about Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, ... Read More about The Year of the French (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy)

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This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dr... Read More about Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790 (Clarendon Lectures in English #1995)