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Inventing Ireland : the literature of the modern nation / Declan Kiberd.

By: Kiberd, Declan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Vintage, 1996Description: xvi, 719 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 009958221X; 9780099582212.Subject(s): English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | National characteristics, Irish, in literature | Literature: history & criticism | Nationalism -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Ireland | Nationalism in literature | Literary studies: general | Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers | Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 820.99 KIB
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. A new England called Ireland? -- Interchapter. Ireland : England's unconsious? -- 2. Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman -- 3. John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Interchapter. Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part -- 4. Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross -- 5. Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Interchapter. Yeats : looking into the lion's face -- 6. Childhood and Ireland -- 7. The national longing for form -- Interchapter. Return to the source? -- 8. Deanglicization -- 9. Nationality or cosmopolitanism? -- 10. J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Interchapter. Revolution and war -- 11. Uprising -- 12. The Plebians revise the uprising -- 13. The Great War and Irish memory -- Interchapter. Worlds apart? -- 14. Ireland and the end of empire -- Interchapter. Inventing Irelands -- 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 -- Interchapter. Sexual politics -- 20. Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt -- 21. Fathers and sons -- 22. Mothers and daughters --
Interchapter. Protestant revivals -- 23. Protholics and Cathestants -- 24. Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic -- 25. The winding stair -- 26. Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Interchapter. Underdevelopment -- 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" -- Interchapter. Recovery and renewal -- 32. Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 -- 33. Friel translating -- 34. Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland -- 35. Imaging Irish studies.
Summary: This is the most comprehensive and lively history of Ireland's writers ever to be published. It is a controversial survey of the whole course of Irish literature in English since the 1890s.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of Irish writing covers Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers down to Roddy Doyle.

Originally published: [Great Britain] : J. Cape, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. A new England called Ireland? -- Interchapter. Ireland : England's unconsious? -- 2. Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman -- 3. John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Interchapter. Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part -- 4. Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross -- 5. Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Interchapter. Yeats : looking into the lion's face -- 6. Childhood and Ireland -- 7. The national longing for form -- Interchapter. Return to the source? -- 8. Deanglicization -- 9. Nationality or cosmopolitanism? -- 10. J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Interchapter. Revolution and war -- 11. Uprising -- 12. The Plebians revise the uprising -- 13. The Great War and Irish memory -- Interchapter. Worlds apart? -- 14. Ireland and the end of empire -- Interchapter. Inventing Irelands -- 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 -- Interchapter. Sexual politics -- 20. Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt -- 21. Fathers and sons -- 22. Mothers and daughters --

Interchapter. Protestant revivals -- 23. Protholics and Cathestants -- 24. Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic -- 25. The winding stair -- 26. Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Interchapter. Underdevelopment -- 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" -- Interchapter. Recovery and renewal -- 32. Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 -- 33. Friel translating -- 34. Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland -- 35. Imaging Irish studies.

This is the most comprehensive and lively history of Ireland's writers ever to be published. It is a controversial survey of the whole course of Irish literature in English since the 1890s.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 A New England Called Ireland?
  • Ireland--England's Unconscious? Interchapter
  • 2 Oscar Wilde--The Artist as Irishman
  • 3 John Bull's Other Islander--Bernard Shaw
  • Anglo-Ireland: The Woman's Part Interchapter
  • 4 Tragedies of Manners--Somerville and Ross
  • 5 Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys
  • Yeats: Looking Into the Lion's Face Interchapter
  • 6 Childhood and Ireland
  • 7 The National Longing for Form
  • Return to the Source? Interchapter
  • 8 Deanglicization
  • 9 Nationality or Cosmopolitanism?
  • 10 J. M. Synge--Remembering the Future
  • Revolution and War Interchapter
  • 11 Uprising
  • 12 The Plebeians Revise the Uprising
  • 13 The Great War and Irish Memory
  • Worlds Apart?
  • 14 Ireland and the End of Empire
  • Inventing Irelands Interchapter
  • 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
  • Sexual Politics Interchapter
  • 20 Elizabeth Bowen--The Dandy in Revolt
  • 21 Fathers and Sons
  • 22 Mothers and Daughters
  • Protestant Revivals Interchapter
  • 23 Protholics and Cathestants
  • 24 Saint Joan--Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic
  • 25 The Winding Stair
  • 26 Religious Writing: Beckett and Others
  • Underdevelopment Interchapter
  • 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"
  • Recovery and Renewal Interchapter
  • 32 Under Pressure--The Writer and Society 1960-90
  • 33 Friel Translating
  • 34 Translating Tradition
  • Reinventing Ireland
  • 35 Imagining Irish Studies
  • Notes
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Declan Kiberd was born in Dublin in 1951. He took a degree in English and Irish at Trinity College, Dublin, and he holds a doctorate from Oxford University. Among his books are Synge and the Irish Language , Men and Feminism in Modern Literature and Idir Dha Chultur . He writes regularly for Irish newspapers, has prepared literary scripts for the BBC, and is a former director of the Yeats International Summer School. He has lectured on Irish culture in more than twenty countries and has taught at University College, Dublin, for sixteen years. He is married with three children.