Author: et al C. C. Barfoot (Editor)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: politics, literature, history, literatur, studies, literary, irish, national, smithy, identity, representation, anglo, forging
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 1995-01
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 9051837593
ISBN-13: 9789051837599

The interest of Anglo-Irish literature is not only that its canon includes a high proportion of literary giants - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett - but also that it exemplifies the problematics of literature in a context of social and cultural tension. Irish literary history has often been studied under precisely that aspect: as the literature of a country in a marginal, colonial yet intra-European position; a country where a variety of cultural traditions (Gaelic, Anglo-Irish, Ulster Presbyterian) have coexisted in an uneasy relationship; a country with intense social and economic divisions. These in

Author: Joan Barfoot
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: novel, luck
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0786716460
ISBN-13: 9780786716463

One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed Nora, whose recent works of biblical art have caused a fundamentalist furor in their town, is unexpectedly confronted by solo life in a place she despises. Beth, her wispy, beautiful model, faces losing a haven from her own eerie history, while housekeeper Sophie, a former overseas aid volunteer shattered by trauma, will have to find new ways to resist ol

Author: Joan Barfoot
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: lines, exit
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 030739705X
ISBN-13: 9780307397058

The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any reader who has had occasion to visit such a place — or to live in one. Running the show (or so she thinks) is priggish administrator Annabelle Walker, charged with keeping the residents happy, or at least as happy as is required to k

Authors:C.C. Barfoot, Cobi Bordewijk,
Publisher: Rodopi B.V.Editions
Keywords: studies, comparative, literature, textxet, correspondences, intercontinental, forms, functions, theatre
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9051835752
ISBN-13: 9789051835755

Most of the essays in this volume developed from a series of lectures on the forms and functions of theatre in different cultures, and correspondences between them, organized by the Leiden University Department of Theatre and Film Studies. Some contributions to this volume discuss origins, forms and functions of theatre in the Far and in the Middle East, as well as how in some cases the contemporary theatre in these cultures have managed to incorporate Western theatrical elements into their local traditions. Other articles consider how such twentieth-century Western dramatists as Yeats, Brec

Authors:F. G. A. M. Aarts, J. Bakker, C. C. Barfoot, G. Janss
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: costerus, series, new, dqr
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1984-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 9062036260
ISBN-13: 9789062036264