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Tuesday, 14 January 2025
  • New-in-Paperback: John Banville, by Neil Murphy

    Tuesday, 14 January 2025

    John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. Banville’s work has been marked by an embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-consciousness of its own status as art. His novels perpetually reveal an overt fascination with the visual arts, in particular, and with the aesthetic principle of literature as art. This study asserts that, as a whole, Banville’s work presents an elaborate and richly-textured coded account of his relationship with art and with the self-referential fictional world that his novels conjure. Read more.

Saturday, 1 February 2025
  • Black History Month (February 1-28)

    Saturday, 1 February 2025

Tuesday, 11 February 2025
  • New-in-Paperback: Medbh McGuckian, by Borbála Faragó

    Tuesday, 11 February 2025

    This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian’s entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies and a readable synthesis of existing criticism that will be useful to academics and students. Read more.

Friday, 28 February 2025
  • Black History Month (February 1-28)

    Friday, 28 February 2025

Saturday, 1 March 2025
  • Women's History Month (March 1-31)

    Saturday, 1 March 2025