After Yeats and Joyce Reading Modern Irish Literature |
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Author:
| Corcoran, Neil |
Series title: | Opus Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-289231-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $82.68AUD $77.95 |
Book Description:
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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 English 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 beenarticulated, defended, and challenged; a...
More DescriptionIrish 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 English 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 beenarticulated, defended, and challenged; a period which has its origins in a time of intense political turmoil. The title After Yeats and Joyce suggests the immense influence of these two writers onthe styles, stances, and preoccupations of twentieth-century Irish literature. Neil Corcoran focuses his chapters on various themes such as `the Big House', the rural and the 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.