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 realities, the tragedy and the epocal waste of life, the social dislocation, the sheer futility of the struggle, and who was responsible for the shift and its literary aftermath? These are some of the questions addressed by Professor McLure's monograph.

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.

Richard Mamelok is a distinguished poet as well as a well known medical/pharmaceutical researcher. This is his first collection of poetry, a collection called “…a continual restoration of language: what a lovely faith. What a fine first collection” by Jennifer Richter. His work has been compared to Robert Hass (itself a great compliment) and is full of questioning, deep longing and the desire for being and for connection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of medieval Ireland’s greatest collections of stories and poems, THE COLLOQUY OF OLD MEN (12 th century by anonymous bards and compilers)is an extraordinary fictive accountant of journeys made by saint Patrick and the pagan Cailte, a survivor from an earlier epoch. The contrast between Druidic paganism and Christianity permeates the collection It is seen in accounts of Patrick’s miracles, his success as a missioner, his claims to authority both moral and secular. In Cailte, ancient Ireland gives as good as it gets.

Dublin Magazine was a leading 19th journal of literature and politics in Ireland. Professor Hall discusses the influence and scope of the magazine via selections and edited pieces. And shows how it helped to form and frame literary and political opinion. Among the suprises is the interest evinced by the Bronte family in the magazine and their contributions to it. Indeed the readership was “the respectability of Ireland” and its influence was particularly strong during the mid century battles for Catholic Emancipation and Land Reform.

Is there a unique visual infrastructure that keeps and defines a culture? Professor Guillen discusses a culture built entirely on the visual modality and, most significantly, on that province of the visual we negotiate through the written word.