| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages (various pagings)) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Full moon / Peter Cunningham -- Literary autobiography : reclaiming a genre in crisis / Christina Hunt Mahony -- The cinematic representation of Ireland's current critical times / Rosa González Casademont -- An alternative Ulster : conflict and reconciliation in the film work of John T. Davis / Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos -- The nationalist mirage, and the crisis of Irish identity in the modern Irish novel / Shahriyar Mansouri -- Deirdre Madden's fiction at the crossroads of (Northern- )Irish politics, art and identity / Marisol Morales Ladrón -- Crisis and dysfunction in the Irish family : Dorothy Nelson's fiction / Asier Altuna-García de Salazar -- The healing power of words in Jennifer Johnston's Two Moons / Silvia Díez Fabre -- Handling religious crisis from the deathbed : Quakers' conduct literature in Ireland towards the end of the seventeenth century / Antonio José Couso Liañez -- The Irish Trace and the Famine in Wuthering Heights / Purificación García Sáez -- Volunteers, Brian Friel's answer to a time of crisis / María Gaviña Costero -- Walter Starkie and the Easter Rising : facing history with humour / Verónica Membivre -- Comic catharsis in Mark Doherty's Trad / Munira H. Mutran -- Beckett from the ruins : crisis, the social and How It Is / Paul Stewart -- An analysis of modern day Dubliners in Roddy Doyle's "Recuperation" / Burcu Gülüm Tekin -- Ef/Facing critical times : dialectics of forgetting and remembering in Emer Martin's Baby Zero / Aida Rosende Pérez -- Dark twins and black cormorants : migrant others in contemporary Irish poetry / Pilar Villar-Argáiz -- An interview with Peter Cunningham / Juan Francisco Elices Agudo |
| Summary |
This volume offers a collection of papers dealing with how adversities have been tackled and expressed artistically from various perspectives in Ireland. Taken together, the many approaches to critical times provided here prove how, surrounded by outbursts of pessimism, financial hecatombs, and individual and collective discouragement, the academic community can find meaning in hard, intellectual work, and in serious updated research. The chapters here are authored by scholars specialised in Irish Studies, and provide reflections and discussions on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its de |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Research -- Ireland
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Literary studies: general.
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History.
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Films, cinema.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Intellectual life
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Research
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Intellectual life
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Ireland -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96010844
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| Subject |
Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Losada Friend, María, editor
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Perez-Vides, Auxiliadora, editor
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Ron-Vaz, Pilar, editor
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| ISBN |
9781443888875 |
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1443888877 |
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9781443892926 |
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1443892920 |
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