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Crafting Infinity: Reworking Elements in Irish Culture

Autor American Conference for Irish Studies Editat de Rory T. Cornish, Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2012
A collection of essays that investigates how aspects of traditional Irish culture have been revised, retooled, and repackaged in the interest of maintaining the integrity of Irish myth tales, artistic values, spiritual foundations, and historic icons.
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ISBN-13: 9781443839877
ISBN-10: 1443839876
Pagini: 215
Dimensiuni: 150 x 206 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Notă biografică

Dr Rory T. Cornish was born in London and studied at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Davidson College in North Carolina, and University College London where he was a graduate research student under Professor Ian R. Christie, FBA. He has taught on both sides of the Atlantic and is presently Professor of History at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He has been a contributor to fifteen publications, including The International Encyclopedia of Military History (Routledge Press, 2006), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), and was co-editor of Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (Irish Academic Press, 2006). The author of an early study on the political career of George Grenville, he is presently working on a new study of Grenville, Charles Lloyd, and political patronage in eighteenth century Britain. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. Dr Marguerite Quintelli-Neary studied at Rowan University, New Jersey, the Sorbonne (Paris) and Universite Francois Rabelais (Tours, France) as an undergraduate, completing an MA at Villanova University and PhD at the University of Delaware. She has taught at Rowan University and Chadron State College and presently teaches Irish and British Literature at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Her publications have appeared in numerous journals, including Etudes Irlandaises, New Hibernia Review, In-Between, The Journal of Irish Literature, and The Southern Review. She was Associate Editor of the two-volume Dictionary of Irish Literature (Greenwood, 1996), author of Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels (Greenwood, 1997) and The Irish-American Myth of the Frontier West (Maunsel Irish Research Series, 2009). She also edited Visions of the Irish Dream (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and served as editor of Working Papers in Irish Studies from 2003-2010.