Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 - Rilegato

Deane, Seamus

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0198183372 ISBN 13: 9780198183372

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1997

Riassunto

This book traces the emergence of a self-consciously national tradition in Irish writing from the era of the French Revolution and, specifically, from Edmund Burke's counter-revolutionary writings. From Gerald Griffin's The Collegians to Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Joyce, Synge, and Yeats, Irish writing is dominated by a number of inherited issues--those of national character, of conflict between discipline and excess, of division between the languages of economics and sensibility, of modernity and backwardness. Almost all the activities of Irish print culture - novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems - take place within the limits imposed by this complex inheritance. In the process, Ireland created a national literature that was also a colonial one. This was and is an achievement that is only now being fully recognised.

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L'autore

Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

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Book by Deane Seamus

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198183372
• ISBN 13: 9780198183372
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278