Between Shadows is a sequel to John Wilson Foster's acclaimed Colonial Consequences (1991) and, like its predecessor, is a widely-ranging encounter with modern Irish writers and modern Irish culture. Among the writers are Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Trevor, and Barry. The wartime Ulster literary scene, Bloomsday, Irish nationalism, and the Great War are among the cultural episodes and phenomena the author engages with in this varied set of critical engagements.

Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture

Literature & Fiction

Foster, John Wilson

British & Irish

Irish Academic Press

Now available in paperback, Between Shadows is a sequel to John Wilson Foster's acclaimed Colonial Consequences (1991) and, like its predecessor, is a wide-ranging encounter with modern Irish writers and modern Irish culture. Among the writers are Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Martin McDonagh, Tim Robinson, Conor McPherson, and Sebastian Barry. The wartime Ulster literary scene, the celebration of Bloomsday, Irish nationalism, and the Great War are among the cultural episodes and phenomena the author engages with in this varied set of critical engagements. *** If Irish literary and cultural criticism has taken off since the 1970s - and it has - John Wilson Foster is one of the main reasons. He has widened its conceptual horizon, provoked new debates, redefined old debates, and helped to make other critics as historically conscious as he is himself. - from the Foreword by Edna Longley

Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction

Totowa, New Jersey, Rowman and Littlefield, [

Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History

Nature in Ireland is an indispensable reference source, containing definitive histories of Irish botany, mammalogy, entomology, fish and fisheries, geology, meteorology, ornithology, woodlands, demesnes, and bogs. The essays reclaim the study of nature as a major contribution to Irish culture and a significant field of Irish studies, drawing out the links between scientific study, history, art and popular culture. Seán Lysaght explores the question of nomenclature in a bilingual society; Michael Viney gives a lively critical history of hunting, shooting, and other field sports; Dorinda Outram examines the relationship between the standard continental models of natural history and the Irish experience; John Feehan writes of the challenges of conservation and environmentalism; J.H. Andrews presents the history of the mapping of Ireland's physical geography; David Cabot discusses the essential texts of Irish natural history; and in three magisterial essays editor John Wilson Foster traces the traditions associated with perceptions of Irish nature, elucidates the complex relationship of "nature and nation" in the nineteenth century, and, in "The Culture of Nature," takes us on a dazzling tour from Yeats, Wilde, Kavanagh, and Heaney to the cultural implications of eco-tourism, deep ecology, genetic engineering, and artificial life. The essays are accompanied by more that fifty photographs, maps, paintings, and engravings that illustrate the visual culture of Irish nature. In Nature in Ireland, the disciplinary boundaries that have partitioned the study of nature are cleared away with wit, style, and scrupulous scholarship. It is a landmark publication in the study of Irish history, science, and culture.

History

Europe

McGill-Queen's University Press

Nature in Ireland is an indispensable reference source, containing definitive histories of Irish botany, mammalogy, entomology, fish and fisheries, geology, meteorology, ornithology, woodlands, demesnes, and bogs. The essays reclaim the study of nature as a major contribution to Irish culture and a significant field of Irish studies, drawing out the links between scientific study, history, art and popular culture. Seán Lysaght explores the question of nomenclature in a bilingual society; Michael Viney gives a lively critical history of hunting, shooting, and other field sports; Dorinda Outram examines the relationship between the standard continental models of natural history and the Irish experience; John Feehan writes of the challenges of conservation and environmentalism; J.H. Andrews presents the history of the mapping of Ireland's physical geography; David Cabot discusses the essential texts of Irish natural history; and in three magisterial essays editor John Wilson Foster traces the traditions associated with perceptions of Irish nature, elucidates the complex relationship of "nature and nation" in the nineteenth century, and, in "The Culture of Nature," takes us on a dazzling tour from Yeats, Wilde, Kavanagh, and Heaney to the cultural implications of eco-tourism, deep ecology, genetic engineering, and artificial life. The essays are accompanied by more that fifty photographs, maps, paintings, and engravings that illustrate the visual culture of Irish nature. In Nature in Ireland, the disciplinary boundaries that have partitioned the study of nature are cleared away with wit, style, and scrupulous scholarship. It is a landmark publication in the study of Irish history, science, and culture.

Rowman and Littlefield

Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916', to the literature and life-styles of Northern Ireland. They give eloquent, close readings of specific writers - Kavanagh, Hewitt, Rodgers, Montague, Murphy, Donoghue - and at the heart of the book Foster expands on his 1974 study of Seamus Heaney with a new and challenging analysis of the poet as a deeply political writer, working through cultural traditions that are questioned, while respected. The volume concludes with recent essays which have made Foster an important figure in the current debate over political meanings and cultural trends in a riven, unsettled society. An unusual, personal introduction by the author retraces the steps that led him to these combative and penetrating inquiries. Scholarly, engaged and readably written, locally rooted yet globally perceived, they provide a rich matrix of interpretation which frames the past while clarifying the future.

The Lilliput Press

History & Criticism

Lilliput Pr Ltd

The Space Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust

The Space-Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty is an out-of-the-ordinary story of Hollywood, enormous wealth, big philanthropy, and the efforts of pioneering and gifted ecologists over the decades to defuse the environmental crises afflicting Earth, from smog to climate change. The common denominator is an unusual but identifiably American couple. This is the biography of Jack Tyler and his determined wife Alice, who in 1973 founded and funded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Their lives, as it happened, intriguingly replayed the white settlement of the American West and Midwest and the subsequent human impact on the land, air, and water. Jack's is a story from rags (a Dakota Territory sod house) to riches (a Bel Air mansion), from traveling salesman to cofounder and CEO of Farmers Insurance, and then to the rewarding of those scientists tackling Earth's environmental crises.This is also the story of the Tyler Prize itself, which lends prestige to the accomplishments and lives of remarkable ecologists and environmentalists engaged in finding cures for the ills of our environment, from pollution to habitat destruction and species extinction. Through the history of the prize is told the fascinating story of ecology and ecologists over more than half a century.

The Space-Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Foster, John Wilson. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Foster, John Wilson

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Foster, John Wilson. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture

Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture

Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction

Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History

Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History

Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction

Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

The Space Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty

The Space-Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty