Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790

ISBN-13: 9780198184904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 280 str.

Seamus Deane

Opis

This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.

Recenzje

In a brilliant analysis of the relationship of land to speech, Deane writes that "soil is what land becomes when it is ideologically constructed as a natal source ..."

O autorze

Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.