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This monograph is a study of the Woolfian approach to the poetics of the sublime as demonstrated in Virginia Woolf's The Waves. This novel was one of the author=s experiments in fictive creation and it called for a new poetics of the sublime. Dr Klitgard discusses Woolf's methods, technique and narrative in this work as well as in the entire oeuvre in a direct and informative style.Dr.Klitgard has published articles on James Joyce and Virginia Woolf including critiques of Danish translations of ULYSSES and The Waves and a major study of Virginia Woolf in the Reception of British Authors in Europe series published by Continuum Press in London.She is also a co author of a major Danish-English dictionary and a translator of a book on James Joyce."Well written with extremely good insights into Woolf's methods and ambitions...recommended."Professor A.L.Woznicki, USF, San Francisco

This important work is a three part study that includes a legal and historical review of the unique place of law reviews in American legal education as well as the nature and stature of the reviews and the varying careers the top reviews have had in the 20th century. Thirdly Gutterman has written of his own law review career with a mordant and fascinating eye on the extremes of legal opinion (and behavior) a deadline can bring. The author also discusses the effects of the two major writing competitions specifically devoted to law review writing. The study includes an extensive discussion of plagiarism and other abuses found in L. Rev life.

A study which interprets the works of Yeats, Synge, Beckett, Friel and McGuiness among others.

Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925) was one of the most prominent and influential campaigners for women's rights in the nineteenth century and her life and work are of remarkable interest. She is described by the American historian Bonnie S. Anderson as one of the key British feminists of her time. Surprisingly, Turning Victorian Ladies into Women is her first biography.

This monograph explores and describes the historical continuities and relationships between 20th c Zen Buddhism, the postwar psychedelic movement and postmodern eschatology. In general terms (and this is a rich, complex study) the work is a critique of modernization theory as a way of viewing history and suggests the modern epoch (like the Greco-Roman world before it) will only end when the modern world ends. Accordingly, many postmodern movements seek to end modernity through violent action (Germany and Japan in WW11, etc) while others seek to bring to an end modern consciousness, e.g., the psychedelic movement which posed a major historical challenge to bourgeois morality, values, and modes of experiencing space and time. The core of the study is a critique of the historical philosophy of Japan's greatest modern philosopher Nishida Kitaro and, in particular, his historical eschatology. Cunningham examines the Zen-based metaphysics of Nishida's thought and links this to historical resonances between the philosopher, 20th c Zen Buddhism-The West's leading theorist, DT Suzuki, was a friend of Nishida-and the psychedelic/New Age movement which as sought to achieve authentic experience outside of history. History and Ideas Series, No. 2"This work is a valuable addition to research library collections that focus on Japan, 20th alternative movements, Zen and/or the philosophy of history" Dr.Elizabeth Koda

Stimulating, challenging, engaging, well informed and wide-ranging, Professor Redfern's revised book on puns offers massive returns both to the specialist researcher and the interested general reader. Taking his examples back to ancient literatures, but drawing especially on English, American and French cultures, he defines the way in which the pun has so often been denigrated as a poor relation within the family of humorous modes.

Examines the changing dynamic and form of capitalism nowadays that has given rise to numerous attempts to identify and theorize its contemporary features. This Marxist historical materialist interpretation anchors its theorization of new developments within the abstract concepts - value, exploitation, class, concentration and centralization of capital, state power, revolts, repression - necessary to understand capitalist society today in general.

Two major Dickens studies, each of them breaking fresh ground, vie for attention in this absorbing volume. The first explores the extent to which Charles Dickens inherited the mantle of Charles Lamb; the second explores the strained relationship between Dickens, the leading novelist of the day, and T.B. Macaulay, the leading historian of the day.

Presents a thorough overview to one of the key issues in comparative language and literatures as well as in social and political science, history, development studies, anthropology and cultural studies. Contributors provide discussion of cultural identities and changing societies due to the mass migration of people, the exportation of global cultures and the engulfing of monocultural, monolingual cities and nations.

With the increasing objectification of life and people, the critical perspective that psychoanalysis can employ is now more important than ever. However, this argues that analysis must engage with its critics, with other disciplines, and above all, with the ethical demands coming from the Other. This draws not only on the work of key analytic figures like Freud, Klein and Lacan but also on serious critics of psychoanalysis such as Levinas, Baudrillard, Lyotard and Vladimir Nabokov.

Explores the relationship between Cardinal Newman and George Dudley Ryder. While the interrelationship of Newman and Ryder are at the core of this work, this also assesses Ryder's own very important historical contribution and discusses key issues of the period, including Catholic education, celibacy of the clergy, the Oxford Movement, and Tractarianism.

This two-volume work is an edited version of O'Grady's great achievements: "History of Ireland: The Heroic Period," "History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries" and "A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical." Professor McNamara has edited the works not only in order to provide the scholarly reader with insights into O'Grady's subjects and methods but also to help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others). Original introductory material by Professor McNamara is included together with extensive notation and emendation.In nineteenth-century Ireland, Irish myth and legend were considered to be the interests of the uneducated poor living in remote rural areas. Standish James O'Grady, a young Anglo-Irish aristocrat, changed that. He complied fragmentary material into a comprehensive work and gave Irish legends a place of eminence and distinction they had lacked. Although he presented mythical/legendary/fictional events as historical fact, he reawakened in Irish people of all ranks an appreciation of the rich tradition and linguistic vitality of their native land. McNamara's editing and informative research will be indispensable for university and scholarly collections.

This two-volume work is an edited version of O'Grady's great achievements: History of Ireland: The Heroic Period, History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries and A History of Ireland: Critical and Philosophical. These edited works provide the scholarly reader with insights into O'Grady's subjects and methods, and help restore the luster due to the progenitor of the Irish Revival (in the opinion of W.B. Yeats and many others).

This collection by one of America's most distinguished scholars, biographer of Sean O'Casey, and emeritus scholar at Brown University, examines a number of key issues and arguments in Irish intellectual life: Yeats as a political thinker, modern Irish criticism, the treatment of Dublin in modern literature, the conscience of Ireland and the poetry of Synge and Shaw. Additionally there is an in depth examination of O'Casey's work and his place in the canon.

A major contribution to the study of Swift and Irish politics and life in the early 18th century. A scholarly study, contains critical new research as well as over 100 reprints of documents, broadsides, ballads that comprise the heart of the pamphlet controversy aroused by Wood's halfpenny scheme.

Examines variously several current themes in Latin American creative life: the theme of disability in contemporary Peruvian-Mexican writer Mario Bellatin's works, an analysis of the American poet William Carlos Williams together with hispanophile Waldo Frank and the Peruvian Jose Carlos Mari Tegui highlighting the intersection of English and Spanish-speaking Americas; and biographical accounts of Latin American figures.

This work looks at the development of Anna Parnell's feminism and nationalism at the time of her brother, C.S. Parnell's imprisonment. It also covers the wider context of her writings and her emergence as a genuine woman's voice in the Irish political scene.

This work is a scholarly monograph for practical use for higher education faculties. It covers general application of action research for responsive proactive intervention in classroom instruction and improvement of higher education outcomes for students, graduate students and returning seekers of higher education, as well as faculty needing mentoring and focus in their career development.

Girls school stories are dangerous; they change lives. So claims Judith Humphrey, who combines wry wit and rigorous scholarship in her wide-ranging exploration of the phenomenon of the English girls' school story and its continuing popularity with adult women. She argues convincingly that this seemingly innocuous and conformist genre bristles with subversive messages that normalise strong, proactive and intelligent women in a society that has preferred them to be quite otherwise. In this female world, women, framed by society as lacking and incomplete without men, quietly assume themselves to be whole and slip without question or contest into all positions of authority, even, as Dr Humphrey persuasively argues in the chapter on spirituality, that of the all powerful godhead. Replete with examples and quotations from the school stories themselves, this book, though academically challenging, is often funny. Crucially, it portrays a world in which girls and women are happy, loving and free a world that is still evolving in the Internet fan fiction that reworks its themes and recreates its community. Girls school stories have long been dismissed as formulaic third-rate literature. Judith Humphrey claims that, on the contrary, they are sites of empowerment, and this book explains their significance in the body of children's literature as well as their importance in the lives of many women.

This work contributes to the social sciences generally, and economics in particular, by reviewing the way in which a narrowly applied interpretation of economics in the modern world contributes to social and environmental injustice. Through analysis of the context and intentions of the theorists upon whose ideas modern policy is based, the book contributes to the debate about using the current economic paradigm more appropriately until a better paradigm is implemented.

Ella Young (1867-1956) the Irish poet, Celtic mythologist and author lived an Irish life of almost 60 years, and then went on to have a dramatically different life in California that lasted over 30 years until her death. Using family papers, letters and diaries, this research monograph discusses Young's relationship with W. B. Yeats, George Moore and J.M.Synge, as well as her California academic world and the influence she exerted on Robinson Jeffers, Alan Watts, Ansel Adams and Harry Partch.

Dr.Beitchman has created a variety, a plethora of interconnections and links and lines that connect many seemingly unconnectable literary elements and forms. Take for example the two "political” chapters...the first Shakespeare's King John and the last Jean Baudrillard's vision of 9/11; both deal with periods of crisis and loss of confidence/credibility of and in society conjuring a derangement that has become a syndrome.

This work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practitioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level. Faculty, students and community participants are the focus of this collection whose purpose is community health-based service learning - where and when coming out to the community as caring catalysts is central to a higher education mission.

Discusses the converts who joined the Roman Catholic Church in the middle years of the nineteenth century. This work deals primarily with the ways in which the converts' own lives were affected by their change of religion - how conversion impacted on their relations with family and friends, their work, and their daily life.

Investigates the representation of Jewish people, characters, places and customs within the periodical Belgravia: A London Magazine, between the years 1866-1876. The magazine contained a range of articles on many different subjects, and the Jewish presence is clear within a diverse field of disciplines. The study considers how this presence changes across the time period and how these changes can relate to broader societal and political movements that were occurring.

Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). This book assesses the life and legacy of this important voice from mid twentieth century Central Europe.

Discusses a critical element in the early poetry of Seamus Heaney: the question of poetic duty and responsibility, with specific reference to the poetry he published before moving from Ulster to the Irish Republic. The work demonstrates how his first four poetry collections exhibit a progression in how the poet, after coming to grips with his artistic vocation, finally discovers the means by which to address the terrible events that afflicted Northern Ireland at the time.

This research monograph is a long needed one volume approach to not only the subject but to the extensive contributions to English religious history made by Duffy, MacCulloch, Wormsley, Haigh and a number of others. Its great strength is positing an armature of viviparous politics and social tensions that continually broke down attempts at a single vision for Anglicanism despite all official Church and State efforts.

This research work for the first time discusses the Baptist Bible Fellowship and its connections with segregation during the 1950sand beyond. It includes an examination of some of its key founders and their views of segregation and observes some of the crucial figures who fought for racial equality and integration within this organization.