| Description |
1 online resource ([xi], 331 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the text; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The fall of the Stage Irishman; CHAPTER 3 Storytelling: the Gaelic tradition; CHAPTER 4 Writers in quarantine? The case for Irish Studies; CHAPTER 5 Synge, Yeats and bardic poetry; CHAPTER 6 George Moore's Gaelic lawn party; CHAPTER 7 The flowering tree: modern poetry in Irish; CHAPTER 8 On national culture; CHAPTER 9 White skins, black masks: Celticism and Négritude; CHAPTER 10 From nationalism to liberation; CHAPTER 11 The war against the past |
| Summary |
Declan Kiberd here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. This book demonstrates afresh the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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Authors, Irish -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, Irish
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English literature -- Irish authors
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511130589 |
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9780511130588 |
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051112905X |
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9780511129056 |
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0511130201 |
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9780511130205 |
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9780511485923 |
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0511485921 |
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1280225653 |
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9781280225659 |
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1107151414 |
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9781107151413 |
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0511200137 |
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9780511200137 |
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0511300573 |
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9780511300578 |
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