Small World - Ireland, 17982018

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

Table des matières

Foreword, Joe Cleary; 1. Swift as Classic; 2. Burke in the USA; 3. Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire; 4. Imperialism and Nationalism; 5. Irish National Character 1790-1900; 6. Civilians and Barbarians; 7. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; 8. Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion; 9. Dead Ends: Joyce's Finest Moments; 10. Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death: The House in Paris; 11. Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One; 12. Mary Lavin: Celibates; 13. Emergency Aesthetics; 14. Wherever Green is Read; 15. The Famous Seamus; 16. The End of the World.

A propos de l'auteur

Seamus Deane was a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and wrote four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than twenty languages and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. After a lengthy career at University College Dublin, he was Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

Résumé

This book is for both general and scholarly readers interested in literary and cultural history. It is a survey of 200 years of Irish writing, its local and global contexts; it offers analytic accounts of works and authors (including Swift, Burke, Joyce, Bowen, Heaney), and their socio-political backgrounds.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Seamus Deane, Seamus (University of Notre Dame Deane, Deane Seamus
• Collaboration: Cleary Joe (Préface)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108840866
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84086-6
• Pages: 364
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form