Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780312219017 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 299 str.

Christina Hunt Mahony

Opis

With a comprehensive introduction providing a continuum from the Celtic Twilight to the present day and with helpful literary and historical chronologies, Contemporary Irish Literature is organized by genre, with sections on poetry, drama, and fiction. The profusion of award-winning Irish poets, playwrights, and novelists is discussed in terms of the roles these writers play within the current Irish literary renaissance - occurring simultaneously with Ireland's most recent modernization and prosperity - and their own individual merits.

Recenzje

"A prodigious piece of scholarship, this well-written study will be indispensable in the burgeoning study of Irish literature." - Choice

"The only current one-volume introduction to these writers, this is essential for all libraries with a literary collection at any level." - Library Journal

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction Poetry Plays Prose Notes Select Bibliography Index

O autorze

Christina Hunt Mahony is the Associate Director of the Center for Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is the author of studies on W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, and Irish women novelists. She holds a Ph.D. from University College, Dublin.