Irish essays
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Irish essays
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 245-252
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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