| Description |
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Colin Graham and Richard Kirkland -- 2. '... maybe that's just Blarney': Irish Culture and the Persistence of Authenticity / Colin Graham -- 3. Decolonization and Criticism: Towards a Theory of Irish Critical Discourse / Gerry Smyth -- 4. 'Pestilence on their backs, famine in their stomachs': the Racial Construction of Irishness and the Irish in Victorian Britain / Jim Mac Laughlin -- 5. Gendered Irishness in Britain: Changing Constructions / Bronwen Walter -- 6. Breaking the 'Cracked Mirror': Binary Oppositions in the Culture of Contemporary Ireland / Shaun Richards -- 7. Troubles, Terminus and The Treaty / Lance Pettitt -- 8. Reading Responsibility in Castle Rackrent / Claire Connolly -- 9. 'Could anyone write it?': Place in Tom Paulin's Poetry / Eamonn Hughes -- 10. The Body's in the Post: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Dispersed Body / Tom Herron -- 11. Questioning the Frame: Hybridity, Ireland and the Institution / Richard Kirkland |
| Summary |
Ireland and Cultural Theory is a collection of new work in Irish studies, assessing how theoretical readings of 'Ireland' have begun to question the established grounds of debate in Irish culture. Through analyses of film, television, literature, emigration and institutional critical practice, these essays examine how the notion of the 'authentic' interacts with and underlies the construction of Irish identity and its cultural forms and politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Irish -- Great Britain.
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National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
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National characteristics, Irish.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067971 -- Theory, etc
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Ireland -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067971
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Ireland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
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| Author |
Graham, Colin, 1967-
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Kirkland, Richard.
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| LC no. |
97032314 |
| ISBN |
0312212909 (St. Martin's : hbk.) |
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0333675967 (Macmillan : hbk.) |
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0333675975 (Macmillan : pbk.) |
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