Ireland, Literature, and the Coast - Seatangled

Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Maritime Yeats


• 2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands


• 3: Coastal Joyce


• 4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks


• 5: At the Ebb Tide: Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland


• 6: Heaney Offshore


• 7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea


• 8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction


• 9: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry, and Water


• 10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright


• 11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift


• 12: Into the Archipelago


• Conclusion

About the author

Nicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Endowed Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia. A native of Belfast, he has published several books on Ireland and its literature, has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council.

Summary

Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Allen, Nicholas (Endowed Professor in Humanities Allen, Allen Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2020
• EAN: 9780198857877
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885787-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / European, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Nature in art