Bill Mccormack (42 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. 'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909).Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland.Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union.'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout. A few dog ears. Cover boards and dust jacket are both in very good shape. Former library book with usual library stamps, labels and markings. (Please note any image provided in our listings are stock photos provided by AbeBooks and do not match the covers of the actual item.).…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Ediiton. Illustrated by John Lane. 130 pages. Newspaper clipping with author's obituary laid in. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lane, John (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. -- . Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The family of playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909) had a long pedigree in Ireland. Taking the alleged death in 1767 of Mrs John Hatch (nee Synge) as his focal point, Bill McCormack explores the varied strands and stresses of two family histories in the 18th and early 19th centuries. A suicide in 1769, echoed in an early play by Synge, is carefully documented. Among the Hatch family, sometime MP John Hatch (d.1797) emerges as an unlikely ancestor for the playwright, while the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the Union come under revealing scrutiny. The religious and educational concerns of John "Pestalozzi" Synge (1788-1845) worked as expiation of earlier offences and anxieties, but the Wicklow properties which the Synges inherited from John Hatch could not survive the Famine without grievous loss. Paradoxically, Synge's attachment to local values is traced from that disaster right into composition of "The Playboy of the Western World" (1907). Taking the alleged death of Mrs John Hatch (nee Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. It documents key events in the family's history, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. A memoir about the life and career of an urban police officer, exploring law enforcement, politics, and leadership in a major city.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Silence of Barbara Synge. Book.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: New. 'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909).Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland.Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union.'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. VG book in a Good jacket. Clean sound copy. Unmarked text. gift inscription to the previous owner from "Bob" not sure if this is from the author? Secure packaging! p2. Book.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. Num Pages: 265 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Full blue cloth. xviii, 262 pp., [16] pp. B&W plates of photos. Slight bump to spine foot, slight tilting to spine. Remainder mark to tail edge. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. A tough, feisty police memoir from a former Toronto police chief and author of Life on Homicide.…

Condition: New. Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. Num Pages: 265 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is inscribed and signed by the Bill McCormack on the ffep. The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with very slight edge wear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is inscribed, signed and dated by the Bill McCormack on the ffep. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: New. Klappentext Is it all right if I reach out and touch you? she said. While you read? -- Peter Rock, Blooms Do Me gathers the smartest, sexiest fiction and essays from the award-winning journal Tin House. In this collecti.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. True 1st CDN Edition, 1st Printing. Number line: 03 02 01 00 99 1 2 3 4 5. Preface by William McCormack dated January 1999. Acknowledgements. Prologue. Autobiography of the Police Chief of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force from 1989-1995. 252 pp. plus Index. Dedication copy, " My very best wishes and all the best for the future " SIGNED by W. McCormack. Book has very light wear at spine ends, ow it is as new. Unclipped DJ has slight shelf/ top edge wear. Bookseller's Inventory # 225778. Signed by Author(s). …

Paperback. Condition: New. Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 262 pp, Includes dust jacket - no imperfections. Cover is dark blue with silver lettering on spine - no imperfections. No notations, underlining or highlighting. Crisp and clean. Prompt shipping which includes tracking.