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McGuckian, Medbh
Adam Hanna
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Medbh McGuckianIntroductionMedbh McGuckian (born Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is one of the most prominent members of the second generation of p...
Medieval Lyrics
Natalie Jones
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Medieval LyricsIntroductionAs a result of the great thematic, formal, and stylistic diversity that marks the lyric genre throughout the Middle Ages, t...
Medieval Manuscripts
Mark Faulkner
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Medieval ManuscriptsIntroductionScholars studying medieval manuscripts work in a variety of disciplines, from literary atudies to history to linguisti...
Medieval Scottish Poetry
Nicola Royan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Medieval Scottish PoetryIntroductionIn the title “Medieval Scottish Poetry,” “poetry” is by far the least contentious term. The other two may each be ...
Middleton, Thomas
Adrian Streete
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Thomas MiddletonIntroductionThe publication of Thomas Middleton’s Collected Works by Oxford University Press in 2007 is an important marker of his ris...
Miéville, China
Rob O'Connor
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
China MiévilleIntroductionChina Miéville is a British author and a significant writer of Fantastika fiction in the 21st century, his work showcasing a...
Milton, John
P.J. Klemp
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
John MiltonIntroductionA plaque near John Milton’s birthplace in London describes two of his life’s main missions: he was a “poet and statesman.” Alth...
Modernism
Suzanne Hobson
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Modernism Introduction Modernism is an area of literary research particularly subject to contest and revision. Most studies converge on the pe...
Morality Plays
Clare Wright
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Morality PlaysIntroductionThe “morality play” is one of the most recognizable medieval European dramatic genres, yet much about this term, including t...
Morris, William
David Latham
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
William Morris Introduction The more we read about William Morris (b. 1834–d. 1896) the more we are overwhelmed by the range and depth of his ...
Muir, Edwin
Margery Palmer McCulloch
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Edwin MuirIntroductionEdwin Muir (b. 15 May 1887–d. 3 January 1959) was born in the Orkney Isles in, living between the age of two and seven on the sm...
Muldoon, Paul
Anne Karhio
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Paul MuldoonIntroductionPaul Muldoon was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, in 1951 and spent his childhood in the village of Moy at the border of C...
Mysticism
Denis Renevey
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Mysticism Introduction Although unfamiliar to medieval culture, “mysticism” is an increasingly contentious and limiting term for modern schola...
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan
Philip Coleman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinIntroductionEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in the Irish city of Cork in 1942. She obtained BA and MA degrees from University Co...
Nonsense Literature
Anna Barton
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Nonsense Literature Introduction In the preface to his 1872 collection, More Nonsense, Edward Lear describes his work as “nonsense, pure and a...
Novel, Contemporary British
Julia Jordan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Contemporary British Novel Introduction There is, of course, no single tendency embodied by the contemporary British novel, and the breadth an...
Novel, The Contemporary Irish
Liam Harte
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
The Contemporary Irish NovelIntroductionIf not quite constituting the literary “renaissance” that some commentators deem it to be, Irish fiction of th...
O'Connor, Frank
Paul Delaney
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Frank O'ConnorIntroduction“O’Connor was, above all, a short story writer,” Maurice Sheehy proposed in the first extended bibliography of the writer’s ...
O’Casey, Sean
James Moran
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Sean O’casey Introduction Sean O’Casey (b. 1880–d. 1964) is one of Ireland’s best-known playwrights, and any visitor to Dublin is likely to en...
O’Faoláin, Seán
Paul Delaney
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Seán O’faoláinIntroductionSeán O’Faoláin (b. 1900–d. 1991) was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture. A short-story writer...
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