The Irish Novel in Our Time
Author | : Patrick Rafroidi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patrick Rafroidi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Derek Hand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139500635 |
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day, this is a major book for the field, and the first to thematically, theoretically and contextually chart its development. It is an essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history of the Irish novel.
Author | : J. A. Downie |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527561828 |
Henry Fielding In Our Time publishes many of the papers presented at the international conference held at the University of London 19-21 April 2007 to commemorate the tercentenary of his birth. Written by established scholars, including the acknowledged doyen of Fielding scholars, Martin C. Battestin of the University of Virginia, as well as younger scholars who successfully bring their recent research to bear on neglected areas of Fielding’s life and works, the essays offer a cross-section of current approaches to Fielding and his writings, from his ballad operas, poetry and political journalism , via Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia—the novels for which he is still best known—to the social pamphlets written during his years at Bow Street as magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex. The collection should appeal both to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics and general readers interested in the eighteenth-century in general, and Fielding’s contribution to the emergence and development of the novel form in particular.
Author | : Antony Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838755181 |
This book brings together essays which, in diverse ways, not only revise exisitng views on thirties writing, but also provide ways of accounting for its critical neglect. The essays examine, f0orm a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives, a body of work that reflects the true diversity of the literary and cultural contexts of the thirties, and includes studies on the work of Louis MacNeice, Frank Sheed, Christopher Dawson, Alick West, Christopher Caudwell, Stevie Smith, Storm Jameson, Phyllis Bottome, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Randall Swingler, and Ralph Fox.
Author | : John Wilson Foster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521679961 |
This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author | : Juilene Osborne-McKnight |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455625338 |
"More than forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry. This lively book explains how and why they got to the U.S. and shows how their history made them who they are. From prehistoric Ireland to Irish schools in America, this well-illustrated book provides an essential overview of the ties between the Emerald Isle and the New World."--
Author | : Gerald Hayes |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1788410394 |
Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary heritage out of island life. With indefatigable persistence, he steadily built on his modest formal education, learning to read and write in Irish during middle age while simultaneously expanding his knowledge of literature and history. Scholarly visitors were impressed with Tomás's observations of his tiny community. They encouraged him to commit his stories and memories to paper. He wrote three first-person accounts of his experiences, bequeathing to us a captivating saga of a folk culture doomed by difficult circumstances. His works are among the first examples of Ireland's transition from oral to written folk storytelling. The Blasket Islandman tells, for the first time, the full story of Tomás's life, with its many triumphs and travails. This absorbing account also describes the forces that influenced his work and details his impressive legacy. Tomás was determined that his community be remembered. In the process, he achieved a level of immortality for himself. More than eighty years after his passing, he remains the famed 'Blasket Islandman' and, to paraphrase the man himself, the like of him will never be again.
Author | : Mary Ketsin |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781590335901 |
Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.
Author | : International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042020382 |
The island of Ireland, north and south, has produced a great diversity of writing in both English and Irish for hundreds of years, often using the memories embodied in its competing views of history as a fruitful source of literary inspiration. Placing Irish literature in an international context, these two volumes explore the connection between Irish history and literature, in particular the Rebellion of 1798, in a more comprehensive, diverse and multi-faceted way than has often been the case in the past. The fifty-three authors bring their national and personal viewpoints as well as their critical judgements to bear on Irish literature in these stimulating articles. The contributions also deal with topics such as Gothic literature, ideology, and identity, as well as gender issues, connections with the other arts, regional Irish literature, in particular that of the city of Limerick, translations, the works of Joyce, and comparisons with the literature of other nations. The contributors are all members of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798 will be of interest to both literary scholars and professional historians, but also to the general student of Irish writing and Irish culture.
Author | : Joseph McMinn |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Painting in literature |
ISBN | : 9780719056987 |
This work offers a critical commentary on the range of John Banville's fiction, including the plays, and views that fiction in the contexts of contemporary critical theory, particularly those of postmodernism and feminism. It argues that Banville's work is deeply influenced by romantic and modernist mythologies of the creative imagination, especially those expressed by Coleridge and Wallace Stevens. Banville's interest in systems of knowledge and forms of representation is a major issue in the study, and McMinn investigates his use of paintings as metaphors.