Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger

ISBN-13: 9780582238848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 196 str.

Richard Kirkland

Opis

This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Interregnum, the institution and the critic  1.'In the midst of all this dross': Establishing grounds of dissent The Country, The City  2.'This thing could rule the world': Northern Irish writing and the idea of coterie  3.'Unconscious patriotism': Northern criticism in the 1980s  4.'Nothing left but the sense of exhuastion': Field Day and counter-hegemony  5.'Just another twist in the plot': Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and the final institution. Paradigms of possibility  Conclusion: Madoc and the institution  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Richard Kirkland is Professor of Irish Literature at King's College London.