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Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781859849323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeathcliff and the Great Hunger examines Irish culture from Swift to Joyce, in the light of the tortuous, often tragic, history that conditioned it.
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781859840276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the question of language, and a full-scale investigation of the Celtic revival.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1844675548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice. Mapping Ideology is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.
Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1992-09-01
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780140145151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.
Author: Sarah Gray
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0758254083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Heathcliff, the son of a vampire slayer and vampire, roams the moors to protect his love, Catherine Earnshaw, from the undead, Catherine must choose between a life of danger and marriage to Edgar.
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 178960477X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-09-08
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0191516023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoly Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day. Rather than add to the mounting pile of political studies of terrorism, Terry Eagleton offers here a metaphysics of terror with a serious historical perspective. Writing with remarkable clarity and persuasive insight he examines a concept whose cultural impact predates 9/11 by millennia. From its earliest manifestations in rite and ritual, through the French Revolution to the 'War on Terror' of today, terror has been regarded with both horror and fascination. Eagleton examines the duality of the sacred (both life-giving and death-dealing) and relates it, via current and past ideas of freedom, to the idea of terror itself. Stretching from the cult of Dionysus to the thought of Jacques Lacan, the book takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious. It also examines the problem of evil, and devotes a concluding chapter to the idea of tragic sacrifice and the scapegoat. Written by one of the world's foremost cultural critics, Holy Terror is a provocative and ambitious examination of one of the most urgent issues of our time.
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2002-07-19
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312300517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing academic response to Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1963 classic, The Great Hunger, which, in addition to presenting a vivid and horrifying picture of the human suffering, made strong accusations against the British government's failure to act. And while British governmental sins of omission and commission during the famine played their part, there is a broader context of land agitation and regional influences of class conflict within Ireland that also contributed to the starvation of more than a million people. This remarkable book opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Colm Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian Diarmaid Ferriter. An important piece of revisionist thinking, The Irish Famine: A Documentary is sure to become the classic primer for this lamentable period of Irish history.
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1583228047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
Author: Victor N. Paananen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-12
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 100052597X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from each of eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism.
