Seamus Deane

A young boy describes growing up amid the violence and tragedy of Northern Ireland during the 1940s and 1950s, detailing the deadly, unspoken betrayal born out of political enmity that shapes the lives of himself and his family

Reading in the Dark

James Joyce

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Roman Muradov

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Krzysztof Ziarek

A collection of essays exploring the future of literary studies by focusing on the relationship between literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The essays aim to break the boundaries separating philosophy and literature.

Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Future Crossings

Seamus Deane is one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. His new book presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical and trenchant, it addresses the political, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island's past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke's political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce's and of Elizabeth Bowen's relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns's fiction – these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature's most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.

Ireland, 1798–2018

Small World

The Best Stories of Brian Friel

The Diviner

Breandán Mac Suibhne

Talking about contemporary Ireland, this work also looks at literary criticism, fiction, history, politics, and art."

Field Day Review

roman

Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790

Strange Country

Luke Gibbons

James Chandler

Tony Crowley

Lucy Cotter

Niall Meehan

Kerby Miller

Kevin Honan

Irish Studies essays from the best academics in the field

Field Day Review 7

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

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