Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision |
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Author:
| Bonaccorso, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-0-88706-536-1 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1987 |
Publisher: | State University of New York Press
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Imprint: | Suny Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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This book examines the personality, cultural inheritance, social commentary, literary art, and representative qualities of Sean O'Faolain, dean of modern Irish literature. It updates O'Faolain's significance as a world-class writer and reinterprets his career of over fifty years from a universalist perspective. It also explores O'Faolain's vital relationship with his native culture, conceiving him as representative Irish writer, self-conscious Irishman and Irish citizen-of-the-world.
This book examines the personality, cultural inheritance, social commentary, literary art, and representative qualities of Sean O'Faolain, dean of modern Irish literature. It updates O'Faolain's significance as a world-class writer and reinterprets his career of over fifty years from a universalist perspective. It also explores O'Faolain's vital relationship with his native culture, conceiving him as representative Irish writer, self-conscious Irishman and Irish citizen-of-the-world.