After Yeats and Joyce : Reading Modern Irish Literature Paperback / softback
by Neil (Professor, School of English, Professor, School of English, University of St Andrews Corcoran
Part of the OPUS series
Paperback / softback
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Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention.
For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by the Irish?
It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articulated, defended, and challenged; a period which has its origins in a time of intense political turmoil. `after Yeats and Joyce' also suggests the immense influence of these two writers on the style, stances, and preoccupations of twentieth-century Irish literature.
Neil Corcoran focuses his chapter on various themes such as `the Big House', the rural and provincial, with reference to authors from Kinsella and Beckett to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney, and Mary Lavin, providing a lucid and far-reaching introduction to modern Irish writing.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:206 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/1997
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- ISBN:9780192892317
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:206 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192892317
