Literature and culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: moments of dangerThis study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and Walter Benjamin's work on historiography. hese are applied to major writers such as Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon and Edna Longley and to institutions such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger Richard Kirkland Limited preview - 2016 |
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger Richard Kirkland Limited preview - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
acknowledgement activity aesthetic allows anthology artefact Arts Council awareness becomes Belfast Benjamin bourgeois British Carson Ciaran Carson concept constitutive coterie counter-hegemonic crisis Deane's defined Derek Mahon Derry desire dialectic discourse displaced dominant Dublin Edna Longley English essay Field Day Field Day's Foley forces foreclosed formation Foster framework gesture Gramsci Group Heaney's hegemonic Hewitt Hobsbaum's homogeneous Honest Ulsterman Ian Paisley ideology imaginative individual insist institution intellectual intelligentsia interregnum Irish poetry Irish writing Leavis Leavis's liberal literary criticism literature Lloyd located Longley's Madoc Mahon Michael Longley Muldoon museum myth narrative nationalism nationalist Northern Ireland Northern Irish Northern Irish culture opposition pamphlet paradigm paradigmatic partition past Paul Muldoon Paulin perceived perhaps poem poet poetic poetry polemic political position possibility province reading recognise Rhonda Paisley role Seamus Deane Seamus Heaney sense significance Simmons Simmons's social strategy structure suggests textual tradition trope Ulster ultimately
Bibliographic information
| Title | Literature and culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: moments of danger Studies in twentieth-century literature |
| Author | Richard Kirkland |
| Publisher | Longman, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0582238846, 9780582238848 |
| Length | 186 pages |
| Subjects | › › English literature History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature and history Northern Ireland Postmodernism (Literature) Social Science / Sociology / General |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |