Irish Writers and Politics

Irish Writers and Politics^R explores a variety of responses, the essays in this collection (the third in the IASAIL-Japan series) dealing with Irish writers past and present, such as Swift, Burke, Ferguson, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Shaw, O'Casey, Stewart Parker, and Desmond Egan as well as Northern Irish poets and playwrights. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. Masaru Sekine; ENGLISH READERS: THREE HISTORICAL 'MOMENTS'. Vivian Mercier; SWIFT: ANATOMY OF AN ANTI-COLONIALIST. A. Norman Jeffares; EDMOND BURKE: A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. Lorna Reynolds; THE ENIGMA OF SAMUEL FERGUSON. Maurice Harmon; W. B. YEATS: POLITICS AND HISTORY. Donna Gerstenberger; ASCENDENCY NATIONALISM, FEMINIST NATIONALISM AND STAGECRAFT IN LADY GREGORY'S REVISION OF^R KINCORA, Maureen S. G. Hawkins; THE FIFTH BELL: RACE AND CLASS IN YEATS'S POLITICAL THOUGHT. John S. Kelly; JAMES JOYCE AND POLITICS. Heather Cook Callow; SAINT JOAN. Declan Kiberd; THE 'MIGHT OF DESIGN' IN^R THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS. Christopher Murray; THE WILL TO FREEDOM: POLITICS AND PLAY IN THE THEATRE OF STEWART PARKER. Elmer Andrews; TOO LITTLE PEACE: THE POLITICAL POETRY OF DESMOND EGAN. Brian Arkins; WHO WE ARE: PROTESTANTS AND POETRY IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. David Burleigh; THEATRE WITH ITS SLEEVES ROLLED UP. Emelie Fitzgibbon; NOTES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX^R. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 36.

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By Okifumi Komesu and Masaru Sekine

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• Authors: Okifumi Komesu, Komesu Okifumi, Masaru Sekine, Sekine Masaru
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.1991
• EAN: 9780389209263
• ISBN: 978-0-389-20926-3
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Irish Literary Studies; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Irish Literary Studies; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Irish Literacy Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism