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  • The Routledge Companion to Irish Art

    Edited by Fionna Barber, Fintan Cullen ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    This companion contains new and innovative writing on Irish art and its history, from c. 1800 to the present day.This book critically engages with Irish art in a period linked to key events in Irish history, beginning with the Acts of Union between Britain and Ireland (1800–01)) and the significant social and cultural changes that resulted. The book also provides a precedent for a focus on the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ireland and the North

    Edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson, Sara Dybris McQuaid ...
    Series Book 91 - Reimagining Ireland
    Ireland and the North is an edited collection of chapters engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and geographical point of reference for the formation of political and cultural identities in Ireland, the idea of «the North» encourages the identification of overlooked connections between Ireland and the Nordic countries, which, like Ireland, are also ... Read more

    $58.19 USD

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  • Psychogeography

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edited by Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Hegel's Owl

    The Life of Bernard Smith

    by Sheridan Palmer ...
    **'**An elegant and powerful study, finely crafted – fully worthy of its subject.' Peter Beilharz, Curtin University, PerthBernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008 Smith invited writer and art historian Dr Sheridan Palmer to write his biography. Through years of interviews and exclusive access to Smith's papers and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • J.B. Priestley

    by Maggie B. Gale ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The New Elizabethan Age

    Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II

    Edited by Irene Morra, Rob Gossedge ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Legacies of Bernard Smith

    Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics

    Edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall, Andrew Yip ...
    It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the directory of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, published the classic art text Australian Painting, three volumes on the art of Captain Cook's voyages, and two memoirs. His work was seminal for histories of Pacific encounter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Memory Ireland

    Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices

    by Oona Frawley ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    In the second volume of a series that will ultimately include four, the authors consider Irish diasporic memory and memory practices. While the Irish diaspora has become the subject of a wide range of scholarship, there has been little work focused on its relationship to memory. The first half of the volume asks how diasporic memory functions in different places and times, and what forms it takes ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

    Edited by Shaun Richards ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • About England

    by David Matless ...
    ‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes including politics, popular culture, geography, art, architecture, film and music.David Matless navigates the country’s complex cultural terrain, revealing the ways in which the national ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Performing Wales

    People, Memory and Place

    by Lisa Lewis ...
    Beginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas – the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre – concentrating on how they contribute to a shared sense of identity among participants. Through specific examples, the author traces the way cultural performance in Wales both ... Read more

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