Title Inventing Ireland / Declan Kiberd

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996

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Description xi, 719 pages ; 24 cm Series Convergences Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.) Contents 1. A New England Called Ireland? -- 2. Oscar Wilde - The Artist as Irishman -- 3. John Bull's Other Islander - Bernard Shaw -- 4. Tragedies of Manners - Somerville and Ross -- 5. Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys -- 6. Childhood and Ireland -- 7. The National Longing for Form -- 8. Deanglicization -- 9. Nationality or Cosmopolitanism? -- 10. J. M. Synge - Remembering the Future -- 11. Uprising -- 12. The Plebeians Revise the Uprising -- 13. The Great War and Irish Memory -- 14. Ireland and the End of Empire -- 15. Writing Ireland, Reading England -- 16. Inventing Irelands -- 17. Revolt Into Style - Yeatsian Poetics -- 18. The Last Aisling - A Vision -- 19. James Joyce and Mythic Realism -- 20. Elizabeth Bowen - The Dandy in Revolt -- 21. Fathers and Sons -- 22. Mothers and Daughters -- 23. Protholics and Cathestants -- 24. Saint Joan - Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic -- 25. The Winding Stair -- 26. Religious Writing: Beckett and Others -- 27. The Periphery and the Centre 28. Flann O'Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth -- 29. The Empire Writes Back - Brendan Behan -- 30. Beckett's Texts of Laughter and Forgetting -- 31. Post-Colonial Ireland - "A Quaking Sod" -- 32. Under Pressure - The Writer and Society 1960-90 -- 33. Friel Translating -- 34. Translating Tradition -- 35. Imagining Irish Studies Summary Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism. The result is a major literary history of modern Ireland, combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival. Inventing Ireland restores to the Irish past a sense of openness that it once had and that has since been obscured by narrow-gauge nationalists and their polemical revisionist critics. In closing, Kiberd outlines an agenda for Irish studies in the next century and detects the signs of a second renaissance in the work of a new generation of authors and playwrights, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers Analysis English literature 20th century History and criticism English literature Irish authors History and criticism Ireland Intellectual life 20th century Irish literature 20th century History and criticism National characteristics, Irish, in literature Nationalism in literature Nationalism Ireland History 20th century English literature - 20th century - History and criticism English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism Ireland - Intellectual life - 20th century Irish literature - 20th century - History and criticism National characteristics, Irish, in literature Nationalism - Ireland - History - 20th century Nationalism in literature Notes Includes bibliographical references and index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. National characteristics, Irish, in literature. Nationalism in literature. Nationalism -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115504 LC no. 95040521 ISBN 0674463633 (alk. paper)

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