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Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 7270005850
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036901853
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Folk songs, Irish
ISBN : UCSC:32106008979269
Author : P. Colum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:65450306
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0517189844
Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134657
Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.
Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1859182089
With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.
Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081562588X
This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B3796787
A journal of Irish studies.
Author : John W. Hurley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781430325703
For centuries the Irish have been associated with a stick weapon called the Shillelagh. And for generations of Irishmen, the Shillelagh was a badge of honor - a symbol of their courage, their martial prowess and their willingness to fight for their rights and their honor. In modern popular culture, the Shillelagh has acquired a less appealing image, one that attempts to declaw the Irish through negative racial stereotypes of the Victorian era, which depict the Irish as harmless club-weilding Leprecauns or drunken, half-witted brawlers. John Hurley's illuminating study forever alters our view of this much maligned and misunderstood cultural icon by revealing the true martial arts culture of the Irish people, its history, evolution and decline and the resulting effects on the Shillelagh - the most powerful and controversial of Irish icons.
Author : Jacqueline Ingalls Garnett
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781412057172
Firmly grounded in the structure and engravings of Newgrange, this book offers several revolutionary insights into both its science and its religious faith. Forty carved motifs are explained as emblems of site features which the builders provided to ensure an afterlife for the dead, including the nine carved rungs in the passage, the "leak" that delivered water to the chamber bowl and slab, the two round sockets in the rim of the bowl, the stone marbles found in the chamber, and the starry outviews originally possible through the chamber vault. The author argues that some of Michael O'Kelly's discoveries suggest Newgrange may have been retooled when precession displaced the targets of those outviews. The book explores the builders' competent astronomical and mathematical skills, and shows how these were combined with an afterlife faith capable of engaging both mind and spirit. A radical analysis of five related motifs exposes unexpectedly sophisticated characteristics of the Newgrangemen's mode of expression. The rich cluster of afterlife agencies identifiable at Newgrange, unique as a fingerprint, can also be recognized in certain myths, fairytales, religious traditions, and superstitious observances. Mrs. Garnett shows how these resources may shed light on the heretofore almost completely unknown afterlife faith and practice of these stone-age people.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015019136459
Author : John O'Hanlon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Folk-Lore, Irish
ISBN : OXFORD:600061848
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079608413
Author : Victor R. Greene
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0873387945
A Singing Ambivalence undertakes a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups - Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans - responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group's songs reveal an abiding concern over leaving their loved ones and homeland and an anxiety about adjusting to the new society. But accompanying these feelings was an excitement about the possibilities of becoming wealthy and about looking forward to a democratic and free society. known and unknown origins that comment on the problems immigrants faced and reveals the wide range of responses they made to the radical changes in their new lives in America. His selection of lyrics provides useful capsules of expression that clarify the ways in which immigrants defined themselves and staked out their claims for acceptance in American society. But whatever their common and specific themes, they reveal an ambivalence over their coming to America and a pessimism about achieving their goals. the United States, while at the same time conveying from an aesthetic viewpoint how immigrants expressed their hopes and difficulties through a unique medium - song. This is an important volume that will be welcomed by scholars of music and U.S. immigration history.