Back to the Present : : Irish Writing and History Since 1798.

Back to the Present : : Irish Writing and History Since 1798.

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, t...

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Superior document:Costerus New
VerfasserIn:
Lynch, Patricia A.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Fischer, Joachim.
Coates, Brian.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
©2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Costerus New
Physical Description:1 online resource (361 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1798: ACTS OF MEMORY
  • Guests of the Nation
  • Woven Figures: Seamus Heaney and Nationalist Tradition
  • Thomas Campbell's "Exile of Erin": English Poem, Irish Reactions
  • Seamus Heaney and the Croppies: 1798 and the Poet's Early Political Inclinations
  • NARRATING THE PAST
  • I did not know what to think, so I said nothing": Narrative Politics in Castle Rackrent
  • Redmond Count O'Hanlon, The Irish Rapparee: William Carleton and the Problematical Past
  • Unspeakable Home": The Post-colonial Aesthetics of Irish Poetry from Beckett to McGuckian
  • Jennifer Johnston's How Many Miles to Babylon? Questioning the Past Among Echoes of Literary History
  • Masks and Mirrors: Anthony Blunt's True Confessions in John Banville's The Untouchable
  • Be Faithful to the Routine Gestures, and the Bigger Thing Will Come to You: Old Themes in Fermentation in Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do
  • IRISH GOTHIC
  • Imprisonment in Castle Rackrent: Maria Edgeworth's Use of Gothic Conventions
  • Silenced Women/Women's Silence: Reading into the Past
  • A Gothic Nightmare: John Banville and Irish History
  • IMAGES OF IRISH CULTURE
  • The Origin and Significance of the Angel Harp
  • The Influence of J. M. Synge on the Art of Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry
  • Stepping out: Reading Rita Duffy's Dancer
  • Further Thoughts on Irish Poetry Set to Music, with Special Reference to the Art Song in Contemporary Irish Music
  • Marking Time: The Influence of Irish Traditional Music on the Poetry of Ciaran Carson
  • WOMEN AND IRELAND
  • Writing Grief into Memory: Women, Language and Narrative
  • Silence and Power in Anglo-Irish Women's Literature
  • Revaluations: The Significance of Women's Writing in Ireland.
  • The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen, or A Chronicle of a Foreshadowed Death
  • Martyrs to Mistresses? The Mother Figure in Edna O'Brien's Fiction
  • After Easter: Critical Reception and Belfast
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS
  • INDEX.

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