The Literature of Ireland: Culture and CriticismOne of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and he has been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irish studies. These essays reflect the key themes of Brown's distinguished career, most crucially his critical engagement with the post-colonial model of Irish cultural and literary history currently dominant in Irish Studies. With essays on major figures such as Yeats, MacNeice, Joyce and Beckett, as well as contemporary authors including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Brian Friel, this volume is a major contribution to scholarship, directing scholars and students to new approaches to twentieth-century Irish cultural and literary history. |
Contents
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chapter 1 The Literary Revival historical perspectives | 14 |
chapter 2 Joyces magic lantern | 27 |
chapter 3 Music the cultural issue | 36 |
chapter 4 Modernism and revolution
rereading Yeatss Easter 1916 | 45 |
chapter 5 Shakespeare and the Irish self | 61 |
chapter 6 Irish literature and the Great War | 75 |
chapter 7 Ireland Modernism and the 1930s | 88 |
chapter 12 MacNeice and the puritan tradition | 156 |
chapter 13 John Hewitt and memory a reflection | 170 |
chapter 14 Michael Longley and the Irish poetic tradition | 178 |
chapter 15 Seamus Heaney the witnessing eye
and the speaking tongue | 190 |
chapter 16 Derek Mahon the poet and painting | 199 |
chapter 17 Telling tales Kennellys Cromwell and Muldoons The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants | 210 |
chapter 18 Redeeming the time John McGahern
and John Banville | 225 |
chapter 19 Have we a context? transition self and society in the theatre of Brian Friel | 239 |
chapter 8 Postmodernists Samuel Beckett and Flann OBrien | 104 |
chapter 9 Patrick Kavanagh religious poet | 122 |
chapter 10 MacNeices Irelands MacNeices islands | 131 |
chapter 11 Louis MacNeice and the Second World War | 142 |
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