After Yeats and Joyce

Reading Modern Irish Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-289231-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 238 g

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 Englsih 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 been articulated, defended, and challenged; a period which has its origins in a time of intense political turmoil. `after Yeats and Joyce' also suggests the immense influence of these two writers on the style, stances, and preoccupations of twentieth-century Irish literature. Neil Corcoran focuses his chapter on various themes such as `the Big House', the rural and 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corcoran, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1.: Translations

- 2.: A Slight Inflection: Representations of the Big House

- 3.: Lyrical Fields and Featherbeds: Representations of the Rural and the Provincial

- 4.: Views of Dublin

- 5.: Ulsters of the Mind: The Writing of Northern Ireland

- Further Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Corcoran is a Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.