Amsterdam University Press NBN International The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea Manannán and his Neighbors Description: The contributors to this collection dive deep into the rich historical record, heroic literature, and story lore of the medieval communities ringing the Irish Sea, with case studies that encompass Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, and English traditions. The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that characterized the Irish-Sea region in the pre-modern period is reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays, centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of which is still evoked in contemporary culture. Manannán, the famous travelling Celtic divinity who supposedly claimed the Isle of Man as his home, mingles here with his mythical, legendary, and historical neighbors, whose impact on our image and understanding of the pre-modern cultures of the Northern Atlantic has persisted down through the centuries. About Editor/s: Charles W. MacQuarrie is Professor of English at California State University (Bakersfield ISBN: 9789462989399 campus). He earned his PhD in English from the University of Washington. Joseph Falaky Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University. Published: 12-04-19 He earned his PhD in Celtic from Harvard and is formerly Professor at UCLA of English and Folklore & Mythology. Price: € 99.00 Editor/s: Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Contents: Nagy Preface (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California State University, Bakersfield, and Joseph Extent: 224 Falaky Nagy, Harvard University) Introduction: "Manannán and his Neighbors" (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California Format: 23.4 x 15.6 cm State University, Bakersfield) Chapter One: "Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea" (Helen Davies, University of Rochester) Binding: Hardback Chapter Two: "Hunferth and Incitement in Beowulf" (M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University) Chapter Three: "Cú Chulainn Unbound" (Ron J. Popenhagen, California State University, Northridge) Chapter Four: "Ragnhild Eiríksdóttir: Cross-Cultural Sovereignty Motifs and Antifeminist Rhetoric in Chapter 9 of Orkneyinga saga" (Brian Cook, University of Mississippi) Chapter Five: "Statius' Dynamic Absence in the Narrative Frame of the Middle-Irish Togail na Tebe" (Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University) Chapter Six: "The Stanley Family and the Gawain Texts of the Percy Folio" (Rhonda Knight, Coker College) Chapter Seven: "Ancient Myths for the Modern Nation: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf" Page 1/24 (Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, Brooklyn) Chapter Eight: "Kohlberg Explains Cú Chulainn: Developing Moral Judgment from Bully to Boy Wonder to Brave Warrior" (Ethel B. Bowden, Central Maine Community College) Chapter Nine: "Language Revival and Preservation: Contrasting Manx and Texas German" (Marc Pierce, University of Texas, Austin) Page 2/24 Bloomsbury Academic Macmillan Distribution Bloomsbury Academic Rhythms of Writing An Anthropology of Irish Literature Description: This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism. Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph O´Connor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writer’s career is built on the ‘rhythms of writing’: long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances. Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies. This volume, by a pioneer in the field of literary anthropology, represents a major milestone in a contested field. Given its global context, this book (with a foreword by the eminent folklorist Diarmuid Ó Giolláin) will be of interest to academics and writers in the field of anthropology and literature worldwide. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures ISBN: 9781350108639 [The book] includes a useful summary of the few existing texts in this branch of literary anthropology, before going on to explore the flourishing literary scene in Ireland, including Published: 18-04-19 the social worlds of contemporary Irish writers. Ethnography Rhythms of Writing is a rich, subtle and intimate anthropological portrait of the lives and Price: £ 28.99 works of Irish writers authored by one of our finest ethnographers of art and artistic practice. Wulff writes across the grain of common assumptions that writers should be treated as Author/s: Helena Wulff individual geniuses. Instead, Wulff shows us how Irish writers are social actors influenced by their society, relationships, time and place, yet who also translate their own social experience Extent: 184 into more broadly reaching and durable cultural forms. This one-of-a-kind book breathes new life into the anthropology of literature and writing. Dominic Boyer, Rice University, USA Format: 234 x 156mm Ilustrations: 4 bw illus About Author/s: Binding: New in Paperback Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements Prologue: Writing as Craft and Career 1. The Making of a Writer: Training and Creativity 2. Paths and Profiles: In Search of Recognition 3. The Public Intellectual: Writing Journalism 4. Modes of Writing: Genres, Topics, Styles Page 3/24 5. Tracing Tales: Folklore in Fiction 6. Selling Stories: The Publishing Market 7. Varieties of Translation: Within and Across Media 8. America as Hope: Legacy of Leaving 9. Irish Literature and the World Bibliography Index Page 4/24 Liverpool University Press Turpin Distribution Voice of the Provinces The Regional Press in Revolutionary Ireland, 1914-1921 Description: Ireland’s regional newspapers were among the first to record the turbulent events that took place in the country between 1914 and 1921. But who were the personalities behind these papers and what was their background? Did they remain as impassive bystanders while dramatic developments unfolded or were they willing or unwilling participants? What were the difficulties they faced when reporting such formative and sometimes violent events? This book addresses these questions and provides a comprehensive portrayal of the regional press across the entire island at that time. The origins of Ireland’s contemporary provincial newspapers, both nationalist and unionist, as well as independent, are examined and those who ran such publications are profiled. Additionally, the manner in which many of these titles reacted to events during these years is scrutinised and analysed. How did they respond to the Easter Rising? Did they foresee the rise of Sinn Féin? Did they approve of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921? This was a time when regional newspapers risked censorship, suppression, possible closure, and ultimately violent attack. This book records their experiences and charts the history of Ireland’s regional press during the tumultuous and violent years leading up to independence. About Author/s: ISBN: 9781786942258 Christopher Doughan is a historian who completed a PhD from Dublin City University in Published: 31-05-19 2015 and specialises in the history of Ireland's provincial newspapers. Price: £ 80.00 Contents: Author/s: Christopher Doughan Introduction Extent: 256 Chapter 1 - Provincial newspapers: politics and censorship Chapter 2 - The Pale and beyond: Leinster Format: Hardback Chapter 3 - West of the Shannon: Connacht Chapter 4 - Southern exposure: Munster Chapter 5 - Northern drumbeats: Ulster Ilustrations: Conclusion Bibliography Binding: Hardback Page 5/24 Liverpool University Press Turpin Distribution Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Description: This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience. Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds. About Editor/s: Rebecca Barr is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Galway. ISBN: 9781786942081 Sarah-Anne Buckley is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway and President of the Women's History Association of Ireland. Published: 30-04-19 Muireann O’Cinneide is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Galway. Price: £ 80.00 Contents: Editor/s: Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann Cover O’Cinneide Contents List of Figures