num_pages: 224
description: Making It New appears on the occasion of the first major revision of the Leaving Certificate English syllabus in thirty years. This pioneering collection of essays examines the core authors and texts from the new syllabus. Written by leading scholars from a range of Irish third-level institutions, these essays provide engaging and accessible introductions to less familiar authors and open up new critical readings of established texts. There are also three essays on film, a new element in the English syllabus. An invaluable resource for teachers and students of the new syllabus, this is a volume with much to offer any reader interested in contemporary developments in literature.CONTENTSPOETRYConrad Brunström (NUI, Maynooth) on Philip LarkinLucy Collins (University College Dublin) on Eavan BolandPeter Denman (NUIM) on Elizabeth Bishop and Michael LongleyJohn Devitt (Mater Dei Institute) on Seamus HeaneyFICTIONJoseph Cleary (NUIM) on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartRichard Hayes (Mater Dei Institute) on Seamus Deane's Reading in the DarkMargaret Kelleher (NUIM) on Charlotte Brontë's Jane EyreEmer Nolan (NUIM) on Charles Dickens' Great ExpectationsDRAMAPatrick Burke (St Patrick's, Drumcondra) on Brian FrielBrian Cosgrove (NUIM) on King LearPaul Hollywood (NUIM) on HamletFILMGerardine Meaney (UCD) on film narrativeChristopher Morash (NUIM) on literature and filmSarah Smith (UCD) on Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot MARGARET KELLEHER lectures in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is author of The Feminization of Famine (1997) and co-edited (with James Murphy) Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1997).
language: English
title: Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus
titlecomplete: Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus
publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd,