A short history of Irish literature
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A short history of Irish literature
University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, c1986
University of Notre Dame Press ed
Available at 8 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [250]-255
Includes index
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Description
Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, assesses here the place of literature in "a colonial or neo-colonial culture like ours, where the naming of the territory has always been ... a politically charged act." The force of Deane's A Short History of Irish Literature derives precisely from his naming of the territory. With insight, erudition, and a razor-keen style, he locates Irish writers within the island's traumatic history. His aim is to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance.
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