Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century

2000 History

Author : David Pierce
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Download or read book Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century written by David Pierce. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arranged chronologically by decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s, each decade is divided into two different types of writing: critical/documentary and imaginative writing, and is accompanied by a headnote which situates it thematically and chronologically. The Reader is also structured for thematic study by listing all the pieces included under a series of topic headings. The wide range of material encompasses writings of well-known figures in the Irish canon and neglected writers alike. This will appeal to the general reader, but also makes Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century ideal as a core text, providing a unique focus for detailed study in a single volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century

2000 History

Author : David Pierce
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century written by David Pierce. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.

Ireland In The 20th Century

2009-12-01 History

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Release : 2009-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ireland In The 20th Century written by Tim Pat Coogan. This book was released on 2009-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of Ireland in the twentieth century. Covering both South and North and dealing with cultural and social history as well as political, this enthralling work will become the definitive single-volume account of the making of modern Ireland.

Languages of the Night

2015-03-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Barry McCrea
Release : 2015-03-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Languages of the Night written by Barry McCrea. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars – such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the Irish language – caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections that were formative of modernist writing. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist conception of Irish as a lost, perfect language deeply affected the work of James Joyce; the disappearing dialects of northern France seemed to Marcel Proust to offer an escape from time itself. Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the origins and meaning of European literary modernism, Barry McCrea shows how the vanishing languages of the European countryside influenced metropolitan literary culture in fundamental ways.

Irish Pastoral

2005 Country life in literature

Author : Oona Frawley
Release : 2005
Genre : Country life in literature
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Book Rating : 214/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Irish Pastoral written by Oona Frawley. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an exemplary probe into the Irish literary tradition that has been much remarked upon but little analysed, examines the collision between Irish and English pastoral forms and seeks to ascertain the ways in which these literary modes subsequently intertwine as a seeming result of the consolidation of English colonial dominance of Ireland.

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