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The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary
and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art
in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning
with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats
and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead
Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as
Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary
writers including Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Kevin Barry. It sets a
diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of
liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago
of other times and places. Situated within contemporary
conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this
book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in
literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John
Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In
doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish
coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary
configuration of imagined islands.
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God is Romantic (Paperback)
Nicholas Allen Manassa; Edited by Joseph Anthony Schroeder; Compiled by Becky Manassa
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R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current
political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first
general account of popular understandings of political ethics in
contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how
citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they
form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against
the backdrop of contemporary British political ethics, the book
shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of
conduct all too often miss the mark. While the use of official
resources is the primary focus of much regulation, politicians'
consistency, frankness and sincerity, which citizens tend to see in
terms of right and wrong, are treated as 'normal politics'. The
authors suggest that new approaches may need to be adopted if
public confidence in politicians' integrity is to be restored.
The first two decades of Irish independence were fraught and the
formation of the post-imperial state was a continual controversy.
The conditional perception of what Ireland was, should, or might be
coincided with a revolution in the arts. Now forgotten cultures
flared and disappeared, little magazines, cabaret clubs, riots and
theatres erupting in a fluctuating public sphere. Nicholas Allen
reads the crisis of Irish independence as formative of newly
experimental relations between novels, poems, paintings, artists
and audiences. The conditional, unfinished spaces of the modernist
artwork were an unfinished civil war. In connecting these texts and
times, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the
controversies surrounding the Irish state after 1922. With its
interdisciplinary perspective on artists and contexts, this book is
a major contribution to the study of Irish culture of the 1920s and
30s and of modernism's histories.
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and
Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space
is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured
as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and
archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of
geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the
nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of
vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as
a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive
forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected
ecosystem, which is at the same time the historic site of
significant developments in fieldwork and natural science. This
collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series
of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary
history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in
response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the
blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the
reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. These
twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in
the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic
edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and
history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the
archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible,
innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important
role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a
range of methodologies to represent relationships between land,
sea, and cultural work.
Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of
the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he
survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to
the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera's behalf. Broken
Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys, through Europe and the
Americas, where O'Malley moved in wide social circles that included
Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Hart Crane and Jack B. Yeats. Back in
Mayo he took up farming. In 1935 he married Helen Hooker, an
American heiress, with whom he had three children, Cathal, Etain
and Cormac, before a bitter separation. His literary reputation was
established with a magnificent memoir, On Another Man's Wound
(1936). In later years he was close to John Ford, and worked on The
Quiet Man (1952). This vibrant new collection of letters, diaries
and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers.
It enriches the history of Ireland's troubled independence with
reflections on loss and reconciliation. It links the old world to
the new - O'Malley perched on the edge of the Atlantic, a folklore
collector, art critic and radio broadcaster; autodidact, modernist
and intellectual. It conducts a unique conversation with the past.
In Broken Landscapes, we travel with O'Malley through Italy, the
American Southwest, Mexico and points inbetween. In Taos, he
mingled wiht the artistic set around D. H. Lawrence. In Ireland, he
drank with Patrick Kavanagh, Liam O'Flaherty and Louis MacNiece.
The young painter Louis le Brocquy was his guest on his farm in
Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. These places and people remained with
O'Malley in his private writing, assembled for the first time from
family and institutional archives. Reading these letters, dairies
and fragments is to see Ireland in the tumultuous world of the
twentieth century, as if for the first time, allowing us to view
the intellectual foundations of the State through the eyes of its
leading chronicler.
Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current
political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first
general account of popular understandings of political ethics in
contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how
citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they
form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against
the backdrop of contemporary British political ethics, the book
shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of
conduct all too often miss the mark. While the use of official
resources is the primary focus of much regulation, politicians'
consistency, frankness and sincerity, which citizens tend to see in
terms of right and wrong, are treated as 'normal politics'. The
authors suggest that new approaches may need to be adopted if
public confidence in politicians' integrity is to be restored.
'The Britain at the Polls series always asks-and answers, often
with new insights-the key questions about British general
elections. And few elections in living memory pose as many big
questions as that of May 2010.' - Martin Kettle, The Guardian 'For
decades Britain at the Polls has given us high quality insights
into British elections. This latest edition is the most significant
and intriguing of all: an excellent cast of contributors provide a
vivid and accessible presentation of evidence with an engaging
clarity of writing and depth of analysis. It should prove
invaluable not only for academics, but students, journalists and
anyone who wants to understand a unique, game-changing election.' -
Geoffrey Evans, Nuffield College, Oxford 'Britain at the Polls 2010
is an essential guide to a highly unusual election. The authors
provide detailed coverage of the major developments within and
between the parties, the issues that shaped the election
and-perhaps most importantly-some long-term trends in public
opinion that might explain New Labour's slow but steady decline
since the late 1990s. Detailed, yet highly accessible, this book
should be read by anyone interested in the what, when and why of
this remarkable event in British politics.' - Kai Arzheimer,
Professor of Empirical Political Science, University of Mainz 'This
is an outstanding collection of papers by an outstanding cast of
authors. It tells the story of the remarkable election of 2010 to
be sure, but it also makes general patterns in British politics
much more understandable. I heartily endorse it.' - Christopher
Wlezien, Professor of Political Science, Temple University,
Philadelphia 'This volume is a worthy contribution to a
long-running and valuable series of post-election analyses. It
provides insights which are of immediate interest, and in coming
years it will be a useful reference for those who want to recall
'what really happened' in the important election of 2010. - Susan
Scarrow, University of Houston The latest book in the long-running
Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensible and incisive
review of the extraordinary 2010 UK general election. Leading
experts chart the path from Tony Blair's reelection in 2005 to the
collapse of the Labour vote and the formation of the first
coalition government since 1945. Topics covered include Gordon
Brown's premiership, David Cameron's leadership of a resurgent
Conservative party, the effects of the financial crisis and the
parliamentary expenses scandal, and the drama of the UK's first
ever televised leaders' debates. The book analyses the impact of
these factors and others on the election and looks ahead to assess
how the coalition government-and British politics-will adapt in the
new political and economic environment.
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