The Irish Literary Tradition
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Author | : John Ellis Caerwyn Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Civilization, Celtic, in literature |
ISBN | : |
Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.
Author | : Charles D. Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1993-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521419093 |
Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
Author | : Theresa O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813014579 |
In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy has evolved side by side with the canonical comic tradition. They call for a revisionist reading of Ireland's comic intellectual heritage - a reading from the perspectives of two genders - and demand a new kind of double optic - an interpretive frame of reference capable of grappling with difference. This collection will be of particular interest to Joyceans because it examines the influence of Joyce, who has been dismissed by many feminist critics as a pornographer and a champion of patriarchal privilege. It will also be of interest to students of African and African-American literature for its linking of Ireland's comic tradition to that of Africa's - a tradition noted for its use of ethical dialogue and for giving voice to the other.
Author | : Robin Flower |
Publisher | : Lilliput PressLtd |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781874675310 |
First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture form a primary source for generations of scholars and readers, Celticists and medievalists. This edition is accompanied by Professor Delargy's In Memoriam and an updated bibliography of Flower's works.
Author | : Robert F. Garratt |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520066038 |
Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition
Author | : Douglas Hyde |
Publisher | : London, T.F. Unwin |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Irish literature |
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Author | : Vivian Mercier |
Publisher | : Souvenir PressLtd |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780285630185 |
Author | : Margaret Kelleher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2008-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139055017 |
This comprehensive history of Irish literature is written in both its major languages, Irish and English. The twenty-eight chapters in the two-volume history provide an authoritative chronological survey of the Irish literary tradition. Spanning fifteen centuries of literary achievement, the two volumes range from the earliest medieval Latin texts to the late twentieth century. The contributors, drawn from a range of Irish, British and North American universities, are internationally renowned experts in their fields. Featuring a detailed chronology and guides to further reading for each chapter, this major project will become the key reference to Irish Literature.
Author | : Norman Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Irish literature remains, in the popular imagination, a matter of Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Yeats and Joyce. The recent prominence of Seamus Heaney and other poets from the north of Ireland, and the complex Irish, British and cosmopolitan contexts of their work, have altered our sense of the nature and development of Irish literature in English. By tracing a broader stream of tradition to its sources in the 17th century, the author of this book offers new perspectives on the question of Irish national and cultural identity.
Author | : Declan Kiberd |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674981669 |
Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared “the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.” In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna O’Brien, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope. After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Ireland’s ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Ireland’s troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.