Back to the Present: Forward to the Past, Volume II : : Irish Writing and History since 1798 / / edited by Patricia A. Lynch, Joachim Fischer, Brian Coates.

• Superior document: Costerus New Series ; 162
• TeilnehmendeR: Coates, Brian,; Fischer, Joachim,; Lynch, Patricia A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus New Series ; 162.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Out of Limerick: Kate O'Brien - Frank McCourt -- María de la CINTA RAMBLADO MINERO: Kate O'Brien as a "Herstorical" Writer: The Personal Story of Women -- Clare WALLACE: Judgement in Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices -- Taura S. NAPIER: "External Impressions of Life": The Paradoxical Autobiographies of Kate O'Brien -- Karin ZETTL: Transcending Borders - Limerick, Ireland, Europe: Kate O'Brien as Critic and Novelist -- M. Casey DIANA: To Heal and Be Healed: Reading Angela's Ashes -- Alexandra HENDRIOK: Angela's Ashes : Myth and the Memoir of an Irish Survivor -- Paul ROBINSON: Angela in America: Frank McCourt's Memoir -- Regionalism -- Malcolm BALLIN: Regionalism and Realism in The Bell -- Thomas O'GRADY: Putting Benedict Kiely in His Place -- Kristin MORRISON: Ireland and the Sea: Where is "The Mainland"? -- Irish Writing and Translation -- Maurice HARMON: The Colloquy of the Old Men: Shape and Substance -- Sean MYTHEN: Thomas Furlong: The Case for the Reassessment of a Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Poet and Journalist -- Rui CARVALHO HOMEM: "Their Jealous Art": Translators, Precursors and Epigones in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney -- John HILDEBIDLE: Translation and Retranslation? Field Day and the Reversal of Cultural Colonizations -- Anthony MCCANN: "Ar Lorg na Gaoithe": The Impossibility of Translating Séamas Mac Annaidh's Cuaifeach Mo Londubh Buí into English -- Joyce and Identity -- Patrick BOHAN: National Poets and Joyce -- Marisol MORALES LADRÓN: James Joyce's Anxiety of Influence: His Place Inside and Outside the Irish Literary Tradition -- Eugene O'BRIEN: "Identities in the Writer Complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities -- Countervoices In Irish Writing -- Hiroyuki YAMASAKI: Yeats' Representation of Romantic Ireland: His Obsession with Proper or Singular Nouns -- Joanny MOULIN: Seamus Heaney's Versus, or Poetry as Still Revolution -- Åke PERSSON: Brendan Kennelly's Poetry My Arse (1995): An Alternative Ars(e) Poetica -- Shane MURPHY: Intertextual Relations in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry -- Giovanna TALLONE: "That Is a Lie": Verbal Deceit in Friel's The Communication Cord -- Klaus-Gunnar SCHNEIDER: AnOther History of Irish Literature: Creating Spaces for the Homosexual in Irish Prose -- Ireland and the Wider World -- B. R. SIEGFRIED: Shadows of an Irish Grace on the Elizabethan Stage: A Prelude to Further Readings of Shakespeare -- Donatella ABBATE BADIN: Lady Morgan's Italy: Travel Book or Political Tract? -- Giovanni PILLONCA: Marking Time: Some Considerations on Dante's Presence in Station Island -- Nicholas MEIHUIZEN: The Poetics of Violence: The Parallel Case of Seamus Heaney and Mongane Wally Serote -- Mary M. F. MASSOUD: Historic or Comic? The Irishness of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index.