Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

Informationen zum Autor Julieann Veronica Ulin is Assistant Professor of British and American Modernism at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Her Irish Studies scholarship has appeared in Joyce Studies Annual, James Joyce Quarterly, Women's Studies Quarterly, Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon (2006) and Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present (2013). She authored the introduction to Race and Immigration in the New Ireland, which she also co-edited (2013). Klappentext Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. Zusammenfassung Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: A Modern Medieval Obituary 1. Introduction: Medieval Causes 2. Modern Disruptions 3. Medieval Cycles 4. Modern Escapes 5. Conclusion: Medieval Genealogies and a Modern Medieval Obituary

List of contents

Preface: A Modern Medieval Obituary 1. Introduction: Medieval Causes 2. Modern Disruptions 3. Medieval Cycles 4. Modern Escapes 5. Conclusion: Medieval Genealogies and a Modern Medieval Obituary

Product details

• Authors: J Ulin, J. Ulin, Julieann Veronica Ulin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137297495
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29749-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Poetry, Fiction, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, English literature;Middle Ages;William Butler Yeats