Irish Essays

Informationen zum Autor Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. Klappentext Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world. Zusammenfassung Donoghue's forceful arguments! deep engagement with the critical tradition! buoyant prose and extensive learning are all exemplified in this collection of his best essays. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Ireland: 1. Race, nation, state; Part II. On Swift: 2. Reading Gulliver's Travels; 3. Swift and the association of ideas; Part III. On Yeats: 4. Three presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound; 5. The occult Yeats; 6. Yeats's Shakespeare; 7. Yeats: trying to be modern; Part IV. On Joyce: 8. A plain approach to Ulysses; 9. Joyce and the revolution of the word; Part V. Other Occasions: 10. Mangan; 11. Beckett in Foxrock; 12. William Trevor; 13. John McGahern; 14. The early Roddy Doyle; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Denis Donoghue, Denis (New York University) Donoghue, Donoghue Denis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107006904
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00690-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, Poetry, Ireland, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary companions, book reviews & guides