Irish Pastoral

Irish Pastoral
Author: Oona Frawley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Country life in literature
ISBN: 9780716533214

Offers an exemplary probe into the Irish literary tradition that has been much remarked upon but little analysed, examines the collision between Irish and English pastoral forms and seeks to ascertain the ways in which these literary modes subsequently intertwine as a seeming result of the consolidation of English colonial dominance of Ireland.

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century
Author: J. Jeffers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137095547

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion.

Irish Literature

Irish Literature
Author: Alexander Norman Jeffares
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Illustrates the impressive achievement of the great writers in the Irish literary arena and shows the varied accomplishment of others, providing unexpected, entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known. In this book, there are serious and humorous essayists represented, including Steele, Lord Orrery, Sheridan and Edgeworth.

Anthology of Twentieth-century British and Irish Poetry

Anthology of Twentieth-century British and Irish Poetry
Author: Keith Tuma
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780195128949

Collects over 450 works by such poets as Thomas Hardy, Catherine Walsh, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and D.H Lawrence; and covers modernist traditions, black British poets, and avant-garde poetry.

Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars

Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars
Author: Antonio Bibbò
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030835863

This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. This period was a crucial time of nation-building for both countries. Antonio Bibbò illustrates the various images of Ireland that circulated in Italy, focusing on political and cultural discourses and examines the laborious formation of an Irish literary canon in Italy. The center of this analysis relies on books and articles on Irish politics, culture, and literature produced in Italy, including pamplets, anthologies, literary histories, and propaganda; translations of texts by Irish writers; and archival material produced by writers, publishers, and cultural and political institutions. Bibbò argues that the construction of different and often conflicting ideas of Ireland in Italy as well as the wavering understanding of the distinctiveness of Irish culture, substantially affected the Italian responses to Irish writers and their presence within the Italian publishing field. This book contributes to the discussion on transnational aspects of canon formation, reception studies, and Italian cultural studies.

The "tinkers" in Irish Literature

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Author: José Lanters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Irish travellers or 'tinkers' have appeared as characters in Irish literature since the early nineteenth century. Representations of this semi-nomadic cultural and ethnic minority in works by non-traveller authors almost invariably function in some way within the context of Irish identity politics, whereby the 'tinker' often serves as a 'primitive' Other to a modern, civilized Irish Self. This study considers the 'tinker' character in a large body of serious and popular literary texts, some well known, others rarely if ever discussed, and traces how the literary construct of the 'tinker' figure as domestic or foreign Other evolves over time. Three chapters concentrate on specific historical contexts, as the 'tinker' shifts from being a relatively straightforward scapegoat in the literature of the early nineteenth century, to being a more complex and ambiguous embodiment of both the aspirations and anxieties of the Anglo-Irish writers of the Revival, to being a barometer of aspects of modernity and regression in the mid-twentieth-century Irish Republic. Three further chapters focus on thematic contexts that have particular relevance for the development of the 'tinker' figure: children's literature from and about Ireland; fabulist narratives, particularly those with plot configurations derived from Celtic mythology; and crime and detective fiction set in Ireland. Finally the way in which individual travellers represent themselves in autobiographical narratives of the late twentieth century is considered, often in response to the fictional 'tinker' stereotype that has persisted in sedentary society and its cultural expressions for centuries.

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0631215093

Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet

Ireland In The 20th Century

Ireland In The 20th Century
Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1407097210

Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of Ireland in the twentieth century. Covering both South and North and dealing with cultural and social history as well as political, this enthralling work will become the definitive single-volume account of the making of modern Ireland.

Irish Women - Writers - At the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Irish Women - Writers - At the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Kathryn Laing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781911454212

This collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contribution to contemporary feminist recovery projects and remapping the landscape of Irish literature of this period.