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W.B. Yeats went to great lengths to design his self-image which biographers have been slow to challenge. Following on from Blood Kindred (2005), Mc...

This is the first volume of a two-part collection following on from O'Leary's Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939. Although the 1940s ar...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the wordand the words power to redeemhas almost ...

Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of...

Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. They m...

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and...

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a le...

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Yea...

Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of breakthroughthat is, the irruption into the heart of the American cul...

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth a...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers makes availabl...

In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it thr...

One of Europes greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europes greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. Wha...

In his 1837 speech The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, life is our dictionary, encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyon...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 19872007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Irela...

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the na...

In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases lab...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon galvanised the Scottish literary scene in 1932 with Sunset Song, the first novel of the epic trilogy A Scots Quair, which drew...