Verlag: Irish Academic Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 071653181X ISBN 13: 9780716531814
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi. 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 904201671X ISBN 13: 9789042016712
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Niederlande
243 p. Paperback (Fine copy.).
Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010
ISBN 10: 3034302495 ISBN 13: 9783034302494
Anbieter: SKULIMA Wiss. Versandbuchhandlung, Westhofen, Deutschland
New Critical Perspectives. Edited by Elke D'hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien and Hedwig Schwall. Several essays explore how Irish women writers engaged with European themes and traditions through the genres of travel writing, the historical novel, the monologue and the fairy tale. Other contributions are concerned with the British context in which some texts were published and argue for the existence of Irish inflections of phenomena such as the New Woman, suffragism or vegetarianism. Further chapters emphasise the transnational character of Irish women?s writing by applying continental theory and French feminist thinking to various texts; in other chapters new developments in theory are applied to Irish texts for the first time. Casting the efforts of Irish women in a new light, the collection also includes explorations of the work of neglected or emerging authors who have remained comparatively ignored by Irish literary criticism. VII,310 Seiten, broschiert (Reimagining Ireland; Vol. 40/Peter Lang 2011) leicht berieben/slightly rubbed. Statt EUR 67,20 474 g. Sprache: en.
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Verlag: Marie Benjamin Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1780241046 ISBN 13: 9781780241043
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Springer International Publishing, 2018
ISBN 10: 3319807706 ISBN 13: 9783319807706
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present.George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overalldevelopment of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.
Verlag: Springer International Publishing, 2016
ISBN 10: 3319302876 ISBN 13: 9783319302874
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present.George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overalldevelopment of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1474461093 ISBN 13: 9781474461092
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The short story and the modern magazine grew up together, but the story of their mutual emergence has been slow to develop. At last, here is a volume that delves into this culturally vibrant symbiosis on all levels, from game-changing theoretical accounts to sharp, empirical micro-histories. This book is a must-have for short story experts and periodical studies scholars - indeed for anyone fascinated by the interactions between emerging media and cultural forms.' Patrick Collier, Ball State University Explores the relationship between magazine culture and the development of the modern short story form in Britain This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880-1950, the heydays of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the presence, status and functioning of short stories within a variety of periodical publications - highbrow and popular, mainstream and specialised, middlebrow and avant-garde. Examining the impact of social and publishing networks on the production, dissemination and reception of short stories, it foregrounds the ways in which magazines and periodicals shaped conversations about the short story form and prompted or provoked writers into developing the genre. Elke D'hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven. Chris Mourant is Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Verlag: Edward Everett Root Mär 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913087298 ISBN 13: 9781913087296
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ethel Colburn Mayne (1865-1941) is a now largely forgotten Anglo-Irish writer who was born and raised in Ireland, but settled in London to pursue a literary career in 1905. She became a respected literary figure there, publishing novels, short stories, biographies and translations. It is for her short stories that she received the greatest acclaim, often being compared to Henry James and Katherine Mansfield.Mayne published six collections of stories between 1898 and 1925. This book offers a selection of the best stories from these collections, with a particular focus on stories that have an Irish setting and/or Irish characters. The stories printed in this volume are preceded by an introduction that gives an overview of Mayne's life and career and places her work, and her short fiction in particular, within the literary context of the time. Mayne's first story came out in The Yellow Book under the pen-name of Frances E. Huntly in 1895. She then published novels: Jessie Vandeleur (1902), The Fourth Ship (1908), Gold Lace: A Study of Girlhood (1913), One of Our Grandmothers (1916), and her collections of stories, including Things That No One Tells (1910).Mayne's work is out of print and has been for a long time. She has received some attention recently as a contributor and sub-editor of The Yellow Book and her early work has been classed alongside that of other (Irish) New Woman writers. Yet, the rest of her work is interesting and significant as well: her short fiction bridges the gap between fin-de-siècle symbolism and the modernist short story, while her novels and some or her short stories give an invaluable perspective on the constrained lives of the daughters of the Anglo-Irish gentry in the late nineteenth century.Her work certainly deserves to be better known, much like that of contemporaries like Norah Hoult (who knew her), George Egerton, Katharine Tynan or L.T. Meade who have also received renewed attention in recent years. A bibliography is also provided.
Verlag: Peter Lang, 2014
ISBN 10: 3034317530 ISBN 13: 9783034317535
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Often hailed as a 'national genre', the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception of it as a realist form, used to depict quintessential truths about Ireland and Irish identity. This definition fails to do justice to the richness and variety of short stories published in Ireland since the 1850s. This collection aims to open up the critical debate on the Irish short story to the many different concerns, influences and innovations by which it has been formed. The essays gathered here consider the diverse national and international influences on the Irish short story and investigate its genealogy. They recover the short fiction of writers neglected in previous literary histories and highlight unexpected strands in the work of established writers. They scrutinize established traditions and use cutting-edge critical frameworks to discern new trends. Taken together, the essays contribute to a more encompassing and enabling view of the Irish short story as a hybrid, multivalent and highly flexible literary form, which is forever being reshaped to meet new insights, new influences and new realities.
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2008
ISBN 10: 3110206307 ISBN 13: 9783110206302
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.
Verlag: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913087301 ISBN 13: 9781913087302
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnElke D hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven, and co-director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and of the modern literature research group, MDRN. She has published widely in the field o.
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2021
ISBN 10: 1474461085 ISBN 13: 9781474461085
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnElke D hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven, where she co-directs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and the modern literature research group, MDRN. She has published widely in the field.