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Zusatztext This is a lucid account of our various physical and metaphysical to-ings and fro-ings ... important survey. Informationen zum Autor Ray Ryan is editor of Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, of Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics 1949-1999 (2000) and co-editor of Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society 1700-2000.(forthcoming). Klappentext Ray Ryan presents the first comparative study of literature and culture from Ireland and Scotland. Through comparison with Scotland! Ryan argues that crucial themes in Irish culture emerge with new clarity: themes such as Republicanism and colonialism! the city and rural divide! and the partition of Ireland into separate southern and northern states. He engages with a broad range of Irish and Scottish literary texts! few of which have received any previous criticalattention. Zusammenfassung While political connections between Ireland and Scotland have been vigorously promoted in recent years, Ray Ryan presents the first sustained, comparative study of literature and culture from both sites. Ryan's focus is on the Irish state and the Scottish nation. How does literature from the Republic create the cultural shape and personality of the Irish state? Through comparison with Scotland, a stateless nation, Ryan argues that crucial themes in Irish culture emerge with new force and clarity: themes such as Republicanism and colonialism, the city and rural divide, and the partition of the island into separate 'southern' and 'northern' spheres. Analysing a broad range of Irish and Scottish literary texts, Ryan shifts attention from the traditionally defined canon of Irish culture, and establishes the relevance of Scotland for any future discussion of Irish cultural contexts. Offering a radical intervention across a range of disciplines, this book is essential reading for all those working on Ireland, on Scotland, and on contemporary English and British culture....
