Irish Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-107-00690-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity that underlie the finest achievements of Irish writing in all genres. Together, the essays form an unusually lively and far-reaching study of three crucial Irish writers – Swift, Yeats and Joyce – together with other voices including Mangan, Beckett, Trevor, McGahern and Doyle. Donoghue's forceful arguments, deep engagement with the critical tradition, buoyant prose and extensive learning are all exemplified in this collection. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donoghue, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Ireland: 1. Race, nation, state; Part II. On Swift: 2. Reading Gulliver's Travels; 3. Swift and the association of ideas; Part III. On Yeats: 4. Three presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound; 5. The occult Yeats; 6. Yeats's Shakespeare; 7. Yeats: trying to be modern; Part IV. On Joyce: 8. A plain approach to Ulysses; 9. Joyce and the revolution of the word; Part V. Other Occasions: 10. Mangan; 11. Beckett in Foxrock; 12. William Trevor; 13. John McGahern; 14. The early Roddy Doyle; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Donoghue, Denis
Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University.