Theorizing Ireland

A new kind of writing about Irish culture has emerged in recent years, the best examples of which are gathered in this volume. Joining political, linguistic, social and historical approaches to culture, these essays have substantially altered the critical climate of Irish Studies. The Introduction provides a vantage point from which to survey the contemporary critical and cultural currents, while the summaries, glossary and notes for further reading will assist readers who wish to explore in greater depth this challenging and contested field.>

List of contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ireland in Theory; C. Connolly
Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; S. Deane
The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend; A. Bourke
'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney; P. Coughlan
To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin; S. Richards
Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema; L. Gibbons
Changing the Question; T. Eagleton
Misplaced Ideas?: Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies; J. Cleary
The Nineteenth-Century Novel; S. Kilfeather
Tantalized by Progress; C. Morash
The Politics of Poetic Form; C. Wills
'In the Midst of all this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent; R. Kirkland
Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Post-Colonial Irishness; C. Graham
The Spirit of the Nation; D. Lloyd
Summaries and Notes
Further Reading
Index.

About the author

CLAIRE CONNOLLY

Product details

• Authors: Claire Connolly
• Assisted by: Claire Connolly (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2002
• EAN: 9780333803974
• ISBN: 978-0-333-80397-4
• No. of pages: 215
• Series: Readers in Cultural Criticism; Readers in Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary theory, Literature—Philosophy