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Our new release by Professor Andrew N. Woznicki, The Transcendent Mystery in Man: A Global Approach to Ecumenism (Academica Press,2007,ISBN 193314615X) explores man as a being who is endowed not only with immanent but also with transcendent virtual power as well, and through both of them man is capax Dei. The author states that the twofold virtual power enables man to participate in divinity either in a form of an act of believing in the factually existing God, and/or in a form of self discovering of one's own being as divine. In the former, we are dealing with the phenomenon of religion sensu stricte, and in the latter with the phenomenon of spirituality.Rainer Maria Rilke recognizes the presence of the divine in human nature, but according to him the divinity is experienced in its intensity-in its immediacy-as it is found in the "inward reality" of man alone. Although the presence of the divine reveals itself in nature, divinity is most of the time disguised by human preoccupation(s) with the finitude of his existence.On the other hand, Czeslaw Milosz calls man-"a transcendent everyman," and says: "Where I am, and whatever place on earth, I hide from people the conviction that I'm not from here. It's as if I'd been sent, to extract as many colors, tastes, sounds, smells, to experience everything that is a man's share, to transpose what was felt into a magical register and carry it there, from whence I came." However, this divine transcendent Entity as it is experienced by human beings, Thomas Mann describes as being:"Conditioned by feeling for the transcendental mystery of man, by the proud consciousness that he is no mere biological being, but with a decisive part of him belongs to an intellectual and spiritual world, that to him the Absolute is given, the ideas of truth, of freedom, of justice; that upon him the duty is laid to approach the consummate. In this pathos, this obligation, this reverence of man for himself, is God; in ahundred milliards of Milky Ways I cannot find him."However, in this theantropic pathos of "purification, refinement, metamorphosis, transubstantiation, into a higher state" of God's involvement with the created world, there is a need to postulate both an immanent presence of God in the world and man, but without restraining God's transcending self-sufficiency, for He is thought of as an Absolute Being. In other words, theantropic res bina of immanent/transcendent reality of the human and the divine in man of Thomas Mann, changes into the res ultima of St. Thomas Aquinas in the order of goal and purpose.In this work the author states that the Catholic church has to deal with constant cultural changes, and that there are two conflicting tendencies, and radically opposing views on the nature of the Church of Christ on Earth, that is, the absolutist view and the relativistic one. Theological absolutism contemplates the reality of God's Kingdom on earth from the perspective of supernatural life exclusively, and considers the Church primarily as a community, unchangeable and everlasting, that is, as a sui generis reality, which is independent from the actual situation of the world. Theological relativism, on the other hand, attempts to consider the reality of God's kingdom on Earth from the perspective of temporary life. Such absolutistic view has been presented by Cardinal Ratzinger in the document Dominus Jesus (2000), and by Cardinal William J. Levada in the recent document issued on July 10, 2007, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith: Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church. However, according to the author the conflict between the absolutist view and the relativistic one, could be resolved by the teaching on the doctrines of virtual reality as it was presented in the works of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.Contemporary scientists are also wondering about "the transcendental mystery of man," but the focal point of their investigation into "the proud consciousness" of man, is limited "to pinpoint which regions [of the brain] turn on, and which turn off, during experiences that seem to exist outside time and space." In other words, in the ordinary life of each and every human being, the investigation into "the proud consciousness" of man in his/her brain, can be detected and recognized as the basic ground and foundation for emotions and feelings, perceptions and cognition, in contrast to the way of noticing of inner experiences of an individual human being. The neuroscientists, while studying the phenomena of religion and spirituality, are unable to locate and to determine the Transcendent Reality itself, and as such they have to limit their scope of investigations to the human existential happenings.In this work the author elaborates on the human spiritual and religious feelings as they are really found in the theantropic experiencing of the Divine, and as they unfold the most common and universal religious experiences of man. He evaluates the theantropic experiences of the human and the divine in man-not so much on "how we get to God," but "how God comes to us.""Woznicki's book ...comes with my highest recommendation."Archbishop S.Wesoly, Member of the Curia, Vatican City, Rome

This work is an historical discussion and new translation of one of the key works of medicine of the English renaissance. The only two available translations are between one and three and a half centuries old. Because so many errors have crept into translations of Harvey's seminal work a new edition has been called for and a new translation as well. McMullen's work on this topic has been called "Groundbreaking and excellent" by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Discussion of Italian philosophical, ethical and medical objections to the circulation theory (Padua).Contents include a discussion of English translations, the Latin texts, the controversies, analysis of Harvey's research, a short biography of Harvey, the new translation, a critical Latin text based on the second edition(1643) in the format of the 1628 original, an appendix and critique of the Leake and Franklin translations, Endnotes for the English translation, Bibliography, and indexes of the English translation and of the critical armature.

This research work is an important one in theatre history as no published survey of directorial history exists and, while some reference works discuss directors, none concentrates on American directors nor takes a systematic approach to the subject. This monograph does exactly that. IDEAS OF THEATRE will be of great use to students and scholars of American theatre history as well as the history and development of our national stage.Chapters include:1. The Rise of the Director in the American Theatre2. Ben Teal and the Authoritarian Perspective of Directing3. David Belasco and the Scientific Perspective of Directing4. Arthur Hopkins and the Neo-Romantic Perspective of Directing5. George Abbott and the Total Perspective of Directing6. Elia Kazan and the Psychological Perspective of Directing7. The Five DirectorsProduction lists, theatre schools and various movements (Wagnerism, Freudianism, Social Realism, etc) and playwrights as directors are also discussed and included along with an impressive bibliography and robust indexes.Professor Shelton has had a long associated with Kansas State University and is the author of numerous publications.

This ambitious and complex monograph by one of Africa's emerging literary critics and philosophers is focused on the ways that both Nietzsche and Wilde sought aesthetic solutions to the moralistic problems generated by what Nietzsche identified as "the will to truth". The author examines the inadequacy of the Romantic demand for an "undivided" subject both in their era as well as our own. Building on the work of Foucault, Derrida, Paul de Man and John Caputo, Mabille explores the influence of Nietzsche's ideas in late 19th and early 20th century English and Irish writing (especially George Bernard Shaw) and the influence of Wilde's Greek aestheticism on the notion of the dandy and the ubermensch. Wilde's conflation of the stage and the street is also discussed at length along with the roles of aphorism, metaphor, irony and "decadence".

This research monograph a takes a bracing new look at the pieties and received scholarship dealing with the Irish Dramatic Revival of the late 19th and early 20 th century. Dr Vandevelde has reexamined the non canonical Irish theatre world and focuses on the understudied and the misunderstood world of commercial Dublin theatres, The Gaelic League and Daughters of Erin, National Players, The Player's Club, Ulster Literary Theatre among numerous amateur, semi-professional and professional companies. She has a closely argued reinterpretation of the dramas of Padraic Pearse, the Markieviczes and Johanna Redmond. Besides discussing the plays and playwrights of Ireland who wrote in English and Irish and were not involved with the well know Abbey Theatre world, Dr Vandevelde also investigates six key plays (all are reprinted here, some for the first time since 1913). These include Padraic Colum's THE FIDDLER'S HOUSE, Count Casimir Markevicz's THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD, Seamus MacManus THE LAD FROM LARGYMORE, Gerald MacNamara's THOMPSON IN TIR-NA-OG, Seamus O 'Beirn's AN DOICHTAIR,and Johanna Redmond's FALSELY TRUE." ..(A) major contribution to the understanding of Irish-language and English-language players and plays. Posits a more inclusive and intellectually stimulating theatre world than the usual Abbey-centric hagiography. Inclusion of the plays is a marvelous help to our understanding."Dr.James Murphy, NYCIS

This work describes the near future technologies and scientific changes that will effect human life in the next 25 years. Artifical intelligence is a major theme of this book as is computing and biotech. The author argues we are in a transitional period in which the major changes of the next quarter century are only barely developed: genome research, human enhancement, computer to computer research, bioinformatics to mention only a few. The author has a qualitative paradigm of what lies ahead and what the AI community can contribute to shaping and creating a world in which both rich, developing and poor nations can benefit. His "posthumanity" posits machine to machine intelligence with potentially positive results for mankind.

This research monograph analyses and describes how initiative elites react to the high level of judicial review of their successfully passed ballot measures and why those reactions are failing to decrease the number of judicial nullifications. For the last 30 years, state ballot measures that have passed and been challenged in court have been nullified at the ration of 1 out of 2. As a result of a 50% rate of nullification initiative elites have benefited from institutional learning and have become more sophisticated and politically savvy. However the nullification have hardly plummeted. The work explains why and posits other legal and political actions that may be possible for the ballot winners and their supporters.

Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY,Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined: in the national pysche: They are the impact of personalism(via J.J.Rosseau) and the leveraged individual, the growth of the theraputic state and the overwhelming preoccupation with entertainment. The author suggests the moral and cultural quandry these "states" have wrought and the attendant loss of artistic, moral and social integrity that the United States has suffered. "...(A)brillant philosophical and cultural treatise on the ground lost and the hollow, airless quality of our popular culture and media. Deeply disturbing. The book is highly recommended." Professor Randolph Langenbach, Stanford University

What were the links between propaganda, especially popular music and literature, and the British public=s view of the front line soldier during the Great War? And when did that view dramatically alter to reflect the harsh realitiesBthe tragedy and the epocal waste of life, the social dislocation, the sheer futility of the struggleBand who was responsible for the shift and its literary aftermath? These are some of the questions addressed by Professor McLure's monograph.Specialists will be interested in a long considered study of Wilfred Owen's poetry and Britten's WAR REQUIEM as gesamtmusik reflecting a final distillation of postwar attitudes frozen into conventional wisdom. But the voices examined by this monograph hardly had a unified view of the events: from mannered Edwardian responses to postwar howls of rage, the artists discussed include Frederic Manning, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce, Dorothy Sayers, Evelyn Waugh and L.P.Hartley.

This volume of the Irish Critical Receptions Series traces the development of the literary reputation of Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the contemporary reception history of her writings. One of the most widely reviewed and commercially successful authors of her time, until recently Owenson's literary reputation was largely eclipsed by her contemporaries Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott. It has only been in the later decades of the twentieth century that scholars have begun to re-examine Owenson as a pivotal figure in post-Union Irish literature and culture. In this work, Owenson is situated firmly in the context of her role in the development of the Irish 'national tale' and in terms of her often overlooked contribution to the genre of the Romantic-era novel. The critical material included in this volume will provide scholars with a more complete historical context in which to understand how Owenson's career and personal life served as touchstones for cultural debates surrounding gender, nationality, and authorship. Her career in Italy as a travel writer and commentator is also discussed at length.

This work examines early Christian self-definition and response to the world, according to the book of Acts. The author argues that early Christian self-definition and mission are intertwined. In other words, early Christian identity was at the same time the nascent faith's response to the world of paganism and Judaism. This book examines the historiography of Acts, the history of Redemption, the socio-ethnic and theological dimensions of earliest Christian self-definition, and the concepts of conversion, identity and mission. The work's specific contribution lies in its exploitation of Luke's distinctive use of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, given its paradigmatic function in the Acts narrative, to "legitimize" a new Christian self for the early Christians, set in critical relation to the drama of their (Jewish) heritage. The author submits that this posture of the world is determined by Luke's understanding of the experience of God's new redemption in Jesus as the defining factor in the identity of Christians.

A three volume reference work describing the disciplines of 18th century Church history, geography and travel. Details from Wesley's diaries, journals, correspondence, and prose works are used to compile a calendar covering 3 November 1721 to 2 March 1791. Wesley's visits to England Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Georgia, South Carolina, Holland and Germany are tracked including where possible the specific activities in which the founder and leader of Methodism was engaged. Also included is an exhaustive list of primary and secondary sources as well as an index of persons and titles. This calendar becomes especially important as we approach June 17, 2003, which marks the tercentenary of John Wesley's birth.

This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about 1930s economic policies, and went on the serve in the Irish Senate/Sennad from 1939 to 1954. His son RJ (b.1929) was a pioneer of the student left in TCD in the 1940s, and was associated with the post-war attempt to bring European Marxist thinking into the Irish labour movement, with the foundation of the Irish Workers League in 1948. After a period in London in the early 1960s, he returned to Dublin, this time as a research scientist, and helped Cathal Goulding in his attempt to get the 1960s generation of republicans to go political, in a democratic left-wing mode, decoupling from the Stalinist incubus. He helped set the stage for the emergence of the Civil Rights approach to reform in Northern politics, as a means of opening up an all-Ireland perspective. His opponents in the Republican movement,the Provisionals, opted for violence . In the ensuing decades he participated in various politicising processes which may, in the end, show the counter-productive nature of the role of the gun in politics, in Ireland and elsewhere. Roy Johnston lives in Dublin and continues to be politically active. "An important addition to any library of 20th century Irish Studies" Professor J.Skelly

Chapters: 1. Ireland and the wider world in the 12th century. 2. The coming of The Normans. 3. The establishment and consolidation of the lordship of Ireland. 4. The response of the native Irish. 5. Internal tensions within the lordship. 6. The Bruce Invasion. 7. The mid fourteenth century: factionalism, decline, and the "Black Death". 8. Attempts at recovery: Royal intervention. 9. Fifteenth century Ireland. 10. The rise and fall of the Kildare Geraldine supremacy. 11. The Reformation. 12. The renewal of Royal interest in Ireland. 13. Social and economic developments in sixteenth century Ireland. 14. Conquest, submission and settlement.

This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 - Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 - Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 - Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 - Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 - Subsidy Act, 1641 - Proclamation of Phelim O'Neill &c., 24 Oct. 1641, 1642 - Acts of the Ecclesiastical Congregation, Kilkenny, 10-13 May 1642, 1642 - Petition of the Confederate Supreme Council to Charles I, 31 July 1642, 1648 - Speech of Capt. Oliver French, agent of the Supreme Council, to the States General of the United Provinces, 5 May 1648, 1650s - Cromwellian Union, 1678 - Draft legislation for banishing Catholic prelates and regular clergy, 1689 - Jacobite parliament's Act of Attainder, 1697 - Bishops' Banishment Act, 1700 - Act of Resumption, 1723 - Address of the House of Commons to the king on Wood's halfpence, 27 Sept. 1723, 1745 - The question of security and Scottish Jacobite rising, 1778 - Formation of the first Volunteer units, 1782 - Catholic Relief Act, 1796 - The Insurrection Act, 1798 - Documents on the rebellion.

This volume contains over a hundred original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1922 to today. Included among these documents are Irish Boundary Commission Report 1925, speeches by Craigavon 1939 and Churchill 1943, The Constitution of Ireland 1937, The Offences Against the State Act 1939, Ireland Act 1949, speeches, letters and articles by Noel Browne, John Costello, Archbishop McQuaid, and Sean MacBride regarding The Mother and Child Scheme, Education (Northern Ireland) Act 1947, Statement of end of IRA Campaign 1962, extracts from the Irish News, the News Letter, the Irish Times, the Times and the Daily Mirror on deployment of British troops in 1969, Jack Lynch's speech August 1969, press reports of the Arms Trial 1970, articles from the United Irishman 1969 -1970 and An Phoblacht 1970, extracts from Sean Mac Stiofain Memoirs and Provisional Republican pamphlets 1973, Sunningdale Agreement 1973, The Glover Report 1978, Danny Morrison's 'Ballot Paper and Armalite 'speech 1981, The Anglo Irish Agreement 1985, Gerry Adams' Politics of Irish Freedom and extracts from Iris Bheag 1986-1989, press reports of Abortion Referendum campaign 1992, extracts from Catholic Church and pro-Divorce campaign statements, Downing Street Declaration 1993, Mitchell Report 1996, The Good Friday Agreement 1998 and David Trimble's Nobel Peace Prize speech 1998. Appendices include the electoral and political statistics for Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, Eire and the Republic of Ireland 1922-2002

This work culminating years of research among Arab and non Arab TESOL instructors argues for the adoption of a particular type of instruction(Explicit Form-Focused)---one which promotes perception(i.e., noticing and understanding) in the context of meaning-focused activities. The study also argues that an investigation of this approach on L2 learner's linguistic competence with competence in this sense being the ability to both recognize and produce contextually accurate language with standard English speech.

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna(1790-1846) is remembered for her religious tracts and her commentaries on Industrial Britain, but her writings on Ireland of the 1820s to the 1840s have largely been neglected. Her Irish reflections cover a range of topics from agrarian violence, landlordism, Daniel O' Connell, Catholic Emancipation, tithes, restrictions on the Church of Ireland in the 1830s, to national schools, the Irish Poor Law, Father Matthew, Repeal, the Orange Order, the Irish language, and, of course, the necessity of converting Irish Catholics. Her writing had several purposes, to support herself, to convey her religious ideas, to enlighten English readers about a country she had become fond of, and to gain their financial support for the evangelical cause. A book about Charlotte Elizabeth would serve a number of purposes. It could be construed as a biography, a history of pre-Famine Ireland, and an examination of the Second Reformation. It would allow for analysis of many of the pertinent issues such as the passing of Catholic Emancipation and its consequences, the introduction of the national schools, the eroding of the power of the Church of Ireland, agrarian violence, the Tithe War and the various reactions to Repeal. Finally, such a book is an addition to Irish History, religious history and women's history by placing the writings of Charlotte Elizabeth in the context of the history and historiography of the period.

Description:1. Introduction: Irish and Latin documents as sources for Irish history(Including a discussion of problems in using so-called 'traditional' information; the difficulties in dating early texts found in later manuscripts; the compilatory nature of Irish annals; differing attitudes to Irish and Latin language sources; the local rather than national nature of much pre-Norman material)2. Chapter 1: Fifth-century and earlier sources(These to include extracts dealing with Ireland from Strabo's Geography, Tacitus' Agricola & Annals; Ptolemy's Geography & Almagest; Solinus' Collectanea rerum Memorabilium; Ammianus Marcellinus' History; the writings of St Jerome; Orosius' History against the pagans; Patrick's Confessio as found in the Book of Armagh; Ogam stones)3. Chapter 2: Sixth-century sources:(These to include extracts from Ogam stones; Columbanus' letters & sermons; Penitential of Finnian; Amra Columcille (an elegy on the death of St Columba)4. Chapter 3: Seventh-century sources(These to include extracts from 7th century annals dealing with high-kings of Tara and provincial kings of Ireland; two poems on Leinster genealogies; Cogitosus' life of Brigit; Muirchú's life of Patrick - as found in the Book of Armagh; Tírechán's Collectanea; two poems on Columba; Cáin Adomnáin - a legal tract on the rights of women and clerics)l lament for Cuimíne Foto; the Antiphonary of Bangor.5. Chapter 4: Eighth-century sources.(These to include extracts from Cíarraige genealogies; annals of Iona; Munster sources on kingship; extracts from law-tracts dealing with role of rulers (both secular and ecclesiastical); marriages; control of land; role of poets; wisdom tracts on rulers; Timna Cathair Máir - poetic account of Leinster kingdoms; charter material from the Book of Armagh)6. Chapter 5: Ninth-century sources;(These to include extracts from origin legends of dynasties such as the Uí Néill & the Éoganachta - most important kings in northern and southern halves of Ireland respectively. Also Senchas Síl Ír - traditions about the prehistoric history of Ulster ; annals dealing with arrival of Vikings; Baile in Scáil - account of kings of Tara and their burial places; annals dealing with Fedelmid mac Crimthann - king and holy man; Vita Tripartita - legendary account of Patrick's British childhood & his travels in Ireland; annals of Armagh; Bethu Brigde - legendary account of Brigit including her consecration as a bishop; Monastery of Tallaght - account of the Céli Dé.7. Chapter 6: Tenth-century sources(Annals dealing with Clonmacnoise; the kingdom of Mide; Tuathal Techtmar & the story of Uisnech; annals of Dál Cais; annals for Viking wars of 917; Flann Manistrech's poems concerning political events; Lanfranc's & Anselm's letters - by archbishops of Canterbury to Irish kings; professions of bishops of Dublin, Waterford and Limerick; annals giving bishops territorial titles)8. Chapter 7: Eleventh-century sources(Accounts of Battle of Clontarf and annals dealing with Brian Boru's descendants; annals dealing with the kingdom of Leinster; Óenach Carmain - a poem on the assembly of the Leinstermen; Metrical Dindshenchas on Teltown (site of annual fair connected to kingship of Tara); Conchubranus' Life of St Monena)9. Chapter 8: Twelfth-century sources(These to include extracts from Cogadh Gaedhal re Gallaibh; The Book of Rights; the kingdom of Cenél nÉogain; the kingdom of Connacht; Banshenchas; Synodal decrees of 1101; Dublin poem - on taxes due to Armagh by Vikings; Bernard's Life of Malachy; Leabhar Gabála Érenn - the book of the [prehistoric] invasions of Ireland; the miracles of St Laurence O'Toole; Jocelin of Furness' Life of Columba; foundation charter of Newry)

It was in 1916 that Patrick Pearse proclaimed Ireland a sovereign nation on the basis of its mourning, stating that "from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations." The concept of creating an Irish nation as a process of mourning has been both popular and prevalent in the writing of politicians, philosophers, artists, and patriots of every kind. This book analyzes Irish literary, political, and nationalist rhetoric as works of mourning. It focuses on a series of interlocking commemorative discourses: obituaries, decommissioning talks, and hunger strike commemorations. Reading reiterations of these discursive structures in the texts of Beckett, Joyce, and Yeats, as well as in the theories of memory and history from Nietzsche to Derrida, it shows how the nation paradoxically ruptures its political, historical, and cultural limits in the act of thinking or promising them into existence. It argues that as the borders of "Irishness" are both established and exceeded through memories of the dead, the language of mourning opens the way for affirmative re-evaluations of Irish identity as an always-incomplete project.

This monograph (translated from French) is the first attempt to reconcile Camus's deep-seated identity as an Algerian and his ideas of a multiconfessional, multicultural, non-colonial Algeria. The authors discuss the identity of Camus, his philosophy and politics, including his sexual politics, in light of a southern Mediterranean cultural nexus that stamped Camus as an Algerian rather than French (pied-noir). Camus's cosmopolitan and radical Algiers of the 30's is described vibrantly reflecting his extraordinary understanding of the people and landscape that evolved from his journalism. The authors also explore Camus's journalism, classic theory and dramatic works to develop a theory of this Nobel laureate's identity and cultural relationship to Algeria. Camus's death coincided with the bitter end of Algerie Francais and the inability of Camus himself to convince his French-Algerian compatriots that their future remained in Algeria but an Algeria far from the Arab Socialist and Islamic nationalist country that emerged from the War of Independence and continues to be wracked by war and disorder.This work was originally entitled in French CAMUS ET LE DESTIN ALGERIEN (2005), and will be published for French readers in the near future.

Irish criticism of Jonathan Swift's work during his lifetime contributed to the formation of a uniquely Irish public sphere of letters- a public for whom the literary artist stood as the symbol and representative in the absence of empowered political institutions. This spirit was marked in Kathleen Williams' collection of eighteenth century criticism of Swift's work, entitled JONATHAN SWIFT: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1970). However, a number of recent critical, historical and biographical studies have expanded enormously our understanding of the growth of Swift's reputation during his lifetime while developments in critical theory, such as the New Historicism, Postcolonialism, and studies in print culture, have renewed interest in colonial cultures such as eighteenth-century Ireland. Professor Moore has compiled an advance upon the work of Kathleen Williams by expanding the range of materials considered to be critiques and focusing the volume's attention on contemporary Irish critical responses.

This research work deals with subjects of great interest in current criticism---the impact of the New Historicist studies on the interpretation of American literary naturalism, and the issue of the possible persistence of the movement in contemporary fiction. Other essays deal with Norris, Crane and Dreiser who have up to now been considered canonical figures within literary naturalism while Wharton and Chopin are discussed as recent and welcome additions to the discussion of this movement and American literature in general. This work should be seen as a successor to Pizer's well received THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM (1993).

A new study of the political and social context of selected Irish historical dramas of the 18th ,19th and 20th centuries. Includes both thematic analyses of plays dealing with Robert Emmet and Brian Boru as well as individual analyses of plays be Dion Boucicault, Brian Friel, Denis Johnson, Lady Gregory, David Rudkin, Thomas Shadwell, W.B. Yeats. This work will be of great interest to researchers in Irish theatre and drama as well in Irish social history." . . (T)his work breaks new ground in the study of the historical and political in Irish drama. The historical drama in Ireland has always had an element of "claiming" the past for a very particular political or religious present i.e. "our heroes" against theirs, or, too often, "our hatred" against theirs . . . Professor Hawkins is to be congratulated for a fine research work that discusses the theatre as a means of historical and political persuasion and possession and redress."Professor R.B. Mahony.

James Joyce's Giacomo Joyce has generated considerable interest since its posthumous publication in 1968 and this new, ground-breaking work addresses that interest. Giacomo Joyce has provoked widely differing opinions amongst Joyce scholars. But while critical attention has increased, little if anything has been done to draw together the various commentaries, document and exegeses related to this work in anything like a coherent manner. It is clear that in this absence of any full-length critical study that the emerging critical interest stands in need of a volume which would draw together existing scholarship and provide a basis for an ongoing critical project. This project has so far met with very positive responses from the community of Joyce scholars, and is widely considered to be a necessary and long over-due effort at presenting the last of Joyce's published texts within a broad scholarly apparatus. Both the authors have published extensively on Irish Literature and James Joyce and have presented papers at numerous Joyce conferences, symposia and summer schools.

This monograph is a serious sustained study of one of Ireland's most important emerging literary practitioners : Colm Toibin. Professor Turner focuses on the origins of Toibin's career, his stylistic and thematic shift that became apparent in THE STORY OF NIGHT(1996). Another aspect of this critical evaluation is an examination of Toibin's career as a journalist and non fiction writer. This period in Toibin's life began the process of investigation into Marian veneration and belief one of the key elements and characterics of Irish Catholicism especially in rural and small town Southern Ireland. Turner discusses THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP, Marian veneration in Ireland(SEEING IS BELIEVING), Toibin's Hispanic and Internationalist vocabularies(THE SOUTH and THE STORY OF THE NIGHT), sons and lovers in Toibin's fictive universe (THE HEATHER BLAZING and THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP), religion and journalism as in the nonfiction THE SIGN OF THE CROSS and SEEING IS BELIEVING and finally Toibin's sexual politics and homosexuality and their effect on his work.

This hitherto unpublished diary, edited and with notes by Dr. Rogal, provides a valuable research tool for understanding the place of religion in immediate post Revolutionary America specifically amongst the American Methodist Episcopal Church members Bishop Whatcoat had as his flock. Sent to America and appointed by John Wesley with the stern injunction " ... to go and serve the desolate sheep of America," Richard Whatcoat spent 11 years as a roving missioner bishop in the remote parts of the American frontier as well as in more established centers such as southeast New England and the Carolinas. The editor has created a coherent and readable work that stresses Whatcoat's actions and reactions to the newly independent Americans; indeed as an Englishman, the bishop was in receipt of some hard words but also of great encouragement and praise (and some latent pro-Loyalist feeling).Another strength of the diary is the light it sheds on Whatcoat's circuit-riding ministry to black slaves and other persons of color. The great evangelical appeal of Methodism was its liberating theology and great choral music tradition. This aspect of Afro-American development as well as the bishop's relations with black clergymen and would-be clergymen is discussed at length.Whatcoat lived amongst his people rarely staying at an inn or ordinary in his travels: the diary gives a unique picture of rural and small town America, its food, festivals, habits and morality through the eyes of a friendly but firm eighteenth century divine.

This new research monograph discusses the basis of one of Ireland's most extensive (and profitable) hoaxes: the MacCarthy Mor Affair, and the attendant scandal surrounding the selling of Irish traditional titles to otherwise sane businessmen and professionals. Murphy's research covers the origins of the old Gaelic titles in pre-Norman Ireland. Principally the title of Chief, the collapse of the Gaelic order, the survival of some chiefly titles, the Gaelic Revival and the emergence of the Office of Arms. An account is given of the Office of Chief Herald as part of the new Irish state and the courtesy recognition under Dr. MacLysaght in 1944 and years that followed. Finally the emergence of one Terrence MacCarthy of Belfast as "MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond" and his initial success and final unmasking is amusingly and cogently described.

This illustrated work will prove invaluable as a research and informational tool in understanding the rich and varied literary life in Ireland during the last 50 years of the 20th century. Each year is discussed through the key books, articles and reviews of the day and each year is illustrated with interesting and sometimes rare photographs and drawings. The development of Irish writing from the rather somber and repressed post war years to the present riches in poetry and novels and belle-lettres is a gripping and compelling story. The almanac should prove useful as a teaching supplement as well as aide memoire for a period that saw terrific change and upheaval in the literary world and Ireland's emergence as a prosperous successful European nation. with an enviable national literature.

The French of Algeria, as they are commonly called today, remain a distinct yet waning subculture. Aspects of their lives continue to provide fertile ground for the media, including, most recently a widely published discussion of the use of torture and murder by French generals during the Algerian War (1955-1962). Publications continue to proliferate on all aspects and from all sides of the French Algerian experience as the time passed permits unprecedented examination of this controversial period in history from 1830 when European colonization began until today. The Pied-noirs continue to contribute to the rich multi cultural world of contemporary France but their actual experiences remain a largely taboo topic in a country, like that of the U.S. in Vietnam, hasn't fully come to terms with the scars left by colonization, settlement and ultimate defeat.This work shows the tremendous influence of Pied-noir on French local and regional elections and discusses the profound effect that the first waves of French Algerians had on the political and economic cultures of Southern France and on the civil service (particularly the gendarmarie and local administration) this group portended. Also discussed is the relationship of Algerian French to the harkis or Algerian Arab supporters of Algerie Francais. Finally the research examines the political fabric of the community and its suprising influence on both the French Left and Right.