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The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James ...
Maud EllmannOne of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A ...
PreviewMaud Ellmann, "The Name and the Scar: Identity in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Based on Maud Ellmann, "Polytropic Man: Paternity, Identity, and Naming in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ...
The hunger artists: starving, writing, and imprisonment
Maud EllmannHow has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest?
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Maud EllmannThis collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, ...
The World that is the Book: Paul Auster's Fiction
Aliki Varvogli29 Maud Ellmann reads this appetite as a metaphor for writing: To write, for Rimbaud, is to hunger, and it is only through a diet of stone- crop that the poet can accede to the inhuman solitude of art. This visionary hunger also resembles the ...
Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page
Maud EllmannElizabeth Bowen is one of the finest writers of fiction in English in the twentieth century. She is also one of the strangest. Born in 1899 into the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy, she saw herself as the same age as her war-torn century.
The Identity Of Yeats
Richard EllmannThrough his knowledge of Yeats’ life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats’ ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.
Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum
Richard EllmannTerence. Diggory. The new value assigned to the condition of indeterminacy in current critical discussion extends even to literary history, last bastion of positivism. That bastion was undermined in its foundation by the disjunction of the two ...
Yeats, The Man And The Masks
Richard EllmannIn this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920
John McCourtScholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann.
Anne of Windy Poplars
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThis early work by Lucy Maud Montgomery was originally published in 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
Lucy Maud MontgomeryLucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874.
Maud Wright
W. Michael FarmerHistorical short Story containing real and fictional characters. Maud Wright, a true historical character, was kidnapped by a Pancho Villa patrol on its way to raid Columbus, New Mexico.
The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery(Emily writes, “She always leaves her opinions home when she takes a holiday,” and wishes savagely she could write her own description of this interview, but knows Mr. Towers wouldn't print it. Then consoles herself by remembering that she ...
The Golden Road
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIn this sequel to author Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved novel The Story Girl, Beverley picks up the narrative where it left off in the previous story and fills readers in on all that transpires when the original crew of cousins and friends ...
Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places
Deirdre KesslerBolger, Francis W.P. and Epperly, Elizabeth R., eds. My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. MacMillanfrom L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. Crawford, Elaine and Crawford, Kelly. Aunt Maud's Recipe Book. Norval: Moulin ...
Hopi Summer: Letters from Ethel to Maud
Carolyn O'Bagy DavisDocuments the story of the cross-cultural friendship between wealthy New Englander Maud Melville and Hopi potter Ethel Muchvo, who shared years of personal triumphs and sorrows as well as a traditional "Hopi summer" before tragic changes ...
The Reed families of eastern Kentucky
Magoffin County Historical Society (Ky.)Lee and Maud Reed and baby, Emma Day Ch of Lee Reed: Stella, Golden, Boyd , Orpha, Emma Day and Opha Ch of Maud and Lee Reed: Emma Day, Harry Edward, Stanley, Golden, Opha and Orpha Kash McCarty, Emma Day ...
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