Irish Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

   Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

   Edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga

   Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. James Joyce

   Edited by Colin Milton

   Series: Critical Assessments of Major Writers

   James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) is a towering figure in the development of English-language modernist prose fiction. And his influence extends well beyond the anglophone literary world; like his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce flew by the nets of nationality, language, and religion,...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Irish Dramatic Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   An Interpretation

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1939, The Irish Dramatic Movement is a critical study of the dramatic work of W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, their contemporaries and some of their successors. Professor Ellis-Fermor relates each to the movement as a whole, discussing the nature of poetic drama in the...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Irish Children's Literature and Culture

   New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

   Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Valerie Coghlan

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

   W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

   By George Cusack

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

   Race, Sex and Nation

   By Gerardine Meaney

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature

   By Christopher Dowd

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
9. W.B. Yeats

   Edited by Norman A. Jeffares

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published January 6th 2010 by Routledge
10. Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

    By Robin Bates

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted...

    Published October 20th 2009 by Routledge