In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, environment and technology. In this book, cultural historian Gerry Smyth focuses on English genre fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring the ways in which popular novelists of the period engaged with debates relating to environment (England), culture (En...

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen, for example, with digital platforms such as Yo...

All the seas of the world are one.（世上所有的海洋都是同一個。）―J. H. Parry這是一本引人入勝的各國海洋神話與傳說精選集，全彩收錄超過一百幅世界各地圖書館與博物館珍藏圖像——繪畫、藝術品、中世紀書籍插圖、地圖、水手素描，也是令人愛不釋手、深具藝術性的圖文書，是海洋國家的人民必須擁有的桌邊書。Amazon, Goodreads 一致5分評價本書分為7大章，共28則海洋故事，每一章4則故事，分別是：從創始故事看地球起源從海神角色看個人性格從航海冒險看出走與擴張從傳說的場域想像歷史從大自然找到過往的軌跡從船上生活認知人類進展從海洋生物一窺深海盡頭大海是理解人類經驗的重要象徵。卡爾‧榮格用以解釋「集體無意識」概念，也就是解釋人類認知與行為的原型源頭。從古至今，大海一向是詩人最喜歡使用的文學手法之一，除了做為主題，更常被用來當作譬喻，描寫人類試圖...

Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well as six in-depth case studies which revisit material from the writer’s career in the light of new and emerging theories. Considering both Irish cultural history and the European art music tradition, the book...

This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century. The author goes on to argue that the novel is the literary form most apt for the exploration of betrayal in its social, political and psychological dimensions. The significance of this thesis comes into focus in terms of a number of recent developments – most notably, the economic downt...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement. It provides step-by-step information on how to avoid pitfalls, ensure that best practice is being employed and the correct standards are being applied. With useful real-life examples of when projects have gone well and when they haven't, the book is based on the main lessons that have been learned on-the-ground over the past decade.Natural reso...