In Vintage Living Texts, teachers, students & any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of Iris Murdoch. Iris Murdoch's themes, genre & narrative techniques are put under scrutiny & the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent & inventive ways of approaching the novels. Amongst many other features you'll find inspirational reading plans & contextual material, suggested complementary & comparative reading & an indispensable glossary. Featured texts: The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea, The Bell'I didn't realise just how good the series was until I started working closely with it. The questions are so thoughtful & probing-the texts really do occupy their own niche between guides purely for teachers & the ubiquitous student crib, & are much better than either' Head of English, Newington College, Australia ...

IRISH is the story of the mass migration from Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of th coming together of a nation & a city. Those who fled were all escaping a nightmare existence in the poorest & most deprived country in Europe
- this is their tale. IRISH! brings to life the horror pf those grim days & reveals the unimaginable suffering endured by the Irish as a result of the Potato Blight. It describes in vivid detail the hazards & hardships faced by the thousands fleeing the country in search of a better life overseas, including a startling account of one of the most deplorable maritime crimes ever committed, the voyage of the SS LONDONDERRY. The coming of the Irish to Glasgow had a bigger impact on the city than any other event. It is a subject many have said no writer would successfully tackle. John Burrowes has undertaken two years of painstaking research into the most significant & stirring episode in the history of Glasgow, & now for the first time the truth is vividly unfolded. IRISH! brings the tale of the Irish migration to Scotland to life. It tells of the contribution made by Irish labourers in Glasgow to the Industrial Revolution; reveals that the legendary football clubs of Celtic & Rangers may never have existed were it not for the migrants' arrival; & describes the ' Partick War',
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Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a nation & a city. This is the tale of those who escaped a nightmare existence in the poorest & most deprived country in Europe & changed the city of Glasgow forever. Irish brings to life the horrot of those grim days & reveals the unimaginable suffering endured as a result of the Potatoe Blight. It describes in vivid detail the hazards & hardships faced by those fleeing Ireland in search of a better life overseas, including a startling account of one of the most deplorable maritime crimes ever committed, the voyage of the SS Londonderry. The coming of the Irish to Glasgow had a bigger impact on the city than other event. Now, for the first time, the truth about this most significant & stirring episode is vividly unfolded. It tells of the contribution made by Irish labourers in Glasgow to the Industrial Revolution; reveals that the legendary football clubs of Celtic & Rangers may never have existed were it not for the migrant's arrival; & describes the ' Partick War', & the occasion of the first-ever Orange Walk. ...

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church & the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich & robust tradition both of engagement & self-reflection. It has grappled long with politics & has provided the most eloquent response to Ireland ...

This is anecdotal history of the most enjoyable kind
- a narrative rich in culture, entertaining, fair-minded, poignant, combining
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Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore & legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run With the Wolves), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a woodman.

' This book needs to be read, I believe, not as a dry work of scholarship to be judged coolly by the mind, but as the work of a poet struggling to convey an emotional experience & lead us to what he has found within himself' Guardian

' Eclectic & unclassifiable. Iron John is a work whose mentors are the prophetic poets & crazies, William Blake & Walt Whitman' Sydney Morning Herald

' Important.timely.and powerful' New York Times





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