| Description |
1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Ireland, Literature, and the Coast -- copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1: The Maritime Yeats -- 2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands -- 3: Coastal Joyce -- 4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks -- 5: At the Ebb Tide Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland -- 6: Heaney Offshore -- 7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea -- 8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction -- 9: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry and Water0 -- 10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright -- 11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift |
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12: Into the Archipelago -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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Coasts in literature.
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Islands in literature.
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Coasts in literature.
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English literature -- Irish authors.
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Islands in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192599711 |
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0192599712 |
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