Nation and Migration

Nation and Migration
Author: Juliet Shields
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190272554

Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture

A Man who Does Not Exist

A Man who Does Not Exist
Author: Deborah Fleming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1995
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9780472105816

A unique perspective on Yeats's and Synge's contributions to the literature of revolutionary Ireland

Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats

Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1652
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131544819X

This set reissues 6 books, originally published between 1951 and 1990, on William Butler Yeats, a foremost figure of twentieth-century literature and one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival. The volumes examine Yeats’s work, his poetic development, and his social and private life, and will be of interest to students of literature.

Yeats, Folklore and Occultism

Yeats, Folklore and Occultism
Author: Frank Kinahan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000639355

This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats’s formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919
Author: Melissa Fegan
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191555002

The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.

Dance in Ireland

Dance in Ireland
Author: Sharon A. Phelan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443865575

In Dance in Ireland: Steps, Stages and Stories, Sharon Phelan provides an in-depth view of dance in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial eras. She presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and as a signifier of cultural change. Central themes are documented and analysed. They include cross-cultural influences, the dance master and pantomimic dance traditions, dance during the Gaelic Revival, dichotomies in dance, and the theatricalisation of Irish dance. The book is illustrated with photographs and it is an indispensable resource for academics and artists alike, as they continue to foster dance, on the page and on the stage.

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Author: Jason Marc Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317134656

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.