Title Changing states : transformations in modern Irish writing / Robert Welch

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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Description xii, 307 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Change and Stasis in Irish Writing -- 2. Language and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. George Moore: 'The Law of Change Is the Law of Life' -- 4. W.B. Yeats: 'The Wheel Where the World Is Butterfly' -- 5. J.M. Synge: 'Transfigured Realism' -- 6. James Joyce: 'He Rests. He Has Travelled' -- 7. Joyce Cary: 'Wondering at Difference' -- 8. Francis Stuart: 'We Are All One Flesh' -- 9. Samuel Beckett: 'Matrix of Surds' -- 10. Mairtin O Cadhain: 'Repossessing Ireland' -- 11. Sean O Riordain: 'Renewing the Basic Pattern' -- 12. Brian Friel: 'Isn't This Your Job to Translate?' -- 13. Seamus Heaney: 'Leaving Everything' -- 14. Movement and Authority: 'Suddenly You're Through' -- Coda: Seers and Dancers Analysis English literature Ireland English literature Ireland Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-303) and index Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Irish literature. Irish literature -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Ireland -- History. Literature and society. SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923 LC no. 92024801 ISBN 0415086663

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