Literature and Literary Criticism

Kate O'Brien and the Basques / La Escritora Kate O'Brien Y Euskadi

Author: 

Mentxaka, Aintzane L.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Comparative Languages, UC Dublin (National University of Ireland)

“... arresting work ... fascinating portrait of O’Brien ... exemplary scholarship ”
ENGLISH STUDIES JOURNAL, October 2014

"Mentxaka’s prose is clear, well-written and informative, and opens new and fascinating doors to the interpretation of O’Brien’s novels"
THE IRISH EXAMINER, 25 Feb 2013

"[Mentxaka’s book] reads like a challenging detective story, scholarly, yet unpredictable, and sparkling”
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, Summer 2013

Market: 
Irish Studies, Basque life and culture, Basque Identity Politics, Feminism, Spain in 20th c literature, Irish Writing 20th c, Gay/Lesbian Studies, Queer Theory, Women in 20th c British and Irish Drama, Postcolonial Literature
Release Date: 
March 17th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-005-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)

Author: 

Lipski, Jakub and Jacek Mydla

Credentials: 

Ph.D; D/English, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland Ph.D; D/English, University of Silesia, Poland

This collection of original research essays celebrates in a scholarly focused fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s birthday. “The Great Enchantress” of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an author endowed with exceptional powers of enchantment over words, sounds and images.

Market: 
English Gothic Writing 18-19th c, Ann Radcliffe, British literature in Central Eastern Europe 18th c., the novel in 18th c Europe, Psychological novels, Women and chaos in European literature, Byron, Shelley, Wollstonecraft
Release Date: 
June 15th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 9781936320-96-7
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Lacan in Literature and Film: A Closer Look at the Formation of Subjectivity in Lacanian Epistemology

Author: 

Birlik, Nurten & Tuğçe Çankaya and Türkan Aydın

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds: Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Market: 
Lacan, Lacanian critiques of Film and Theatre, Epistemology, Subjectivity/Language Theory, Harold Pinter, Plays of Camus and Sartre, French Intellectual History 1945-2000, T.S. Eliot, Prufrockian notionality
Release Date: 
April 15th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-95-0
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
136
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Men as Islands: Robinsonades From Sophocles to Margaret Atwood

Author: 

Reid, David Stuart and Susan Stuart

Credentials: 

DSR:MA, St.Andrews; Ph.D University of British Columbia: SSR:MA, Ph.D UBC

This book is a meditation on isolation and community through the study of literary treatments of the theme. The treatments are fanciful rather than literal or clinical accounts of exile from society, myths, fables, tales of men without women on desert islands. Even Thoreau’s Walden is something of a lark, a willful eccentric experiment. Most of the stories take place on islands, but sometimes the open sea, mountains or the forest make do as an ‘I-land’.

Market: 
Market: Isolation/ Community in Western Literature, Literary Anthropology, Literary Studies/Criticism Deconstruction,Sophocles, Greek Myths in Western Literature,Contemplative Literature,Selkirk, Defoe,Thoreau, Emerson, Rousseau, Melville, D H Lawrence, Margaret Atwood, Ecology in North American isolation/solitude /outliers
Release Date: 
December 12, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-7-07
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

“I Know That I have Broken Every Heart”: The Significance of the Irish Language in Finnegans Wake and in Other Works of James Joyce

Author: 

Curraoin, Diarmuid

Credentials: 

Irish language scholar/National University of Ireland/Sandford Park

The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake', the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and "the explanatory treasure of heart and mind" , as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides.

Market: 
James Joyce,Irish Studies, the Irish Language in Anglo-Irish Literature, Finnegans Wake(criticism and interpretation), Linguistics,Ireland and the Irish Language Movement, Gaelic Revival, National literature,nationalism and identity in Modern Ireland
Release Date: 
December 15th, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-79-0
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
224
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Joyce's Ulysses for Everyone: Plotting the Narrative

Author: 

Mood, John

Credentials: 

Ph. D, Drew University; author of Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties,1994

PRAISE FOR JOHN MOOD'S RESEARCH ON READING ULYSSES:

Professor Leslie Fiedler (SUNY BUFFALO): “ It would be "more useful [for beginning readers] than anything else I have seen."

Irish novelist & memoirist Nuala O'Faolain: “...A charming and funny account of Ulysses" and " authoritative as well."

Best selling essayist & novelist Tom Wolfe: "I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyce's interweaving of various narrative voices."

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Market: 
Joyce Studies, Ulysses, Irish literature, Narratology studies, Reading theory, Irish History 19th-20th C, Feminism and the New Woman 19th-20th C., Irish Studies, Shakespeare
Release Date: 
06/16/2013
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1-936320-67-7
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
124
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Nihilism and Society in the Age of Screen

Author: 

Liddelow , Eden

Credentials: 

PhD (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe) DALF(Paris), Author of AFTER ELECTRA: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction

“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

Market: 
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies/Theory, post-colonialism, popular culture, film history, TV as a phenomena, Philosophy, Anglo-American Literature, French Literature, Australian Literature, Society and Value in the 21st Century, Art
Release Date: 
March 17th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-62-2
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
346
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Yeats and Tagore: A Comparative Study of Cross-Cultural Poetry, Nationalist Politics, Hyphenated Margins and The Ascendancy of the Mind

Author: 

Majumdar, Sirshendu

Credentials: 

M.Phil. & PhD. Jadavpur University, Assistant Professor of English, Bolpur College, University of Burdwan, West Bengal India

“ This major monograph enables us for the first time to enter deeply into Bengali archives of Tagore to discuss the Yeats and Tagore relationship with the crucial link of James Henry Cousins, an Irish Theosophist who lived in India after acting at the Abbey Theatre fully illuminated and explained: Cousins was related by belief and controversy to Yeats and by marriage and religion to Tagore. This work should be in research libraries . It has scholarly importance not only for Yeats Studies but for Tagore and Theosophy in India as well as Ireland .

Market: 
Yeats, Irish Studies, Yeats-Tagore relationship, Tagore, Indo-Irish anti-Colonialism, subaltern studies, Irish poetry, Bengali poetry and prose 1890-1920, Theosophy and Politics, nationalism and theatre, The Great War in India (1914-1918), marginalization of elites in India and Ireland
Release Date: 
April 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-64-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
392
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Yorkshire: Dialect, Place and Setting in Victorian Sensation Literature

Author: 

Morris, Ruth

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Aberdeen University, author of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question (Bethesda, 2011)

Foreword by Mr Graeme Garvey, Chair, Yorkshire Dialect Society

Market: 
English Literature, 19c, Braddon, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, Topography/Place in literature, Yorkshire in literature, sensation writing and its proponents, popular fiction, feminism, country life and dialects, 19th century literature, Yorkshire history
Release Date: 
November 11,2012
ISBN: 
978-1-936320-54-7
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
132
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From the Way to Wealth to the Gospel of Wealth: The Transformation of the Concept of Success in American Literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser

Author: 

Koseman, Zennure

Credentials: 

Professor of English, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Inonu University, Ph.D, Hacettepe University, American Culture and Literature

This research monograph based on an extensive and original investigation of American literary sources and literary history and it discusses the extraordinary change that occurred in American literature and life based due to the shifting definition and framework of the concept of success from Franklin's ethically framed view of the citizen as a progressive member of an evolving exciting late colonial-early republican society through the redefinition of success and wealth into merciless individualism , mon

Market: 
American literature 1770 - 1918, the concept of Success in American Literature, Ethics and Marginalization, The Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Horatio Alger and the concept of luck and pluck, H.L.Mencken and literary criticism, Theodore Dreiser, The Civil War in American Literary Imagination and the Remaking of the South, Self Reliance and Moral Demise of fictional protagonists, Women and Wealth as means of social acceptance
Release Date: 
8/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-52-3
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
174
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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