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Many intelligent, enthusiastic individuals approach conversations about films as an extension of the pleasures derived while watching them. Love for movies and enthusiasm for discussion makes many people want to attain a better understanding of what they have seen and to develop a greater skill in talking articulately about their experiences.

Presenting an inclusive approach to Wilde criticism, this book highlights the diversity in Wilde's writing, suggests strategies for reading, and leaves the reader to decide how best to apply them.

Offering three essays each on Joyce's four main works (Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake), editor Michael Patrick Gillespie provides a contextual general introduction as well as short introductions to each section that describe the essays that follow and their original contribution to the field.

Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central argument revolves around the notion that the most useful literary criticism is that which comes closest to the process of reading. He argues that since our reading is not circumscribed by Cartesian cause-and-effect principles, our literary criticism should not be bou...

A favorite of library and community reading groups, William Kennedy is best known for his novels Ironweed and Flaming Corsage. This eminently readable book provides a helpful introduction to students and others interested in his work. With engaging finesse, Michael Patrick Gillespie provides a keen analysis of Kennedy's best-known works, a firm base for interpretation, and a better understanding of the cultural world that shapes the characters...

The authors pen a study of interest to scholars and students of Joyce. (Literary Criticism)

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This collection of essays is the first in 15 years to review the current state of theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, and this volume comes more than 100 years after the fictitious Leopold Bloom steps into the novel, a day Joyceans celebrate as Bloomsday. The contributors--well known for their work in James Joyce studies--each provide three assessments in their areas of specialization: a history of the best criticism to date, a timely updating of...

Challenges the traditional view of filmmaking, contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social, economic, and cultural complexity of contemporary Irish identity, this book argues that filmmakers cannot present Irishness as a monolithic entity.

Michael Gillespie uses Wilde's personal commentary to ignite the discussion of the novel. Gillespie follows an articulation of three primary viewpoints - historical (the novel as a product of 19th century British society), modern and post-modern - and then manages an analysis of the novel's ethical nature, its aesthetic positions, and it's cultural and political commentary.