After Yeats And Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature (Opus) - Brossura

Corcoran, Neil

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ISBN 10: 0192892312 ISBN 13: 9780192892317

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

lively, interestingly planned, sensitive, and possessed of great breadth (Professor Edward Larrissy)

L'autore:

Neil Corcoran is a Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0192892312
• ISBN 13: 9780192892317
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208