After Yeats and Joyce : reading modern Irish literature
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After Yeats and Joyce : reading modern Irish literature
（OPUS）（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-186) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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