Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders

ISBN-13: 9780198120742 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 400 str.

Vivian Mercier; Eilis Dillon

Opis

Modern Irish Literature marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing. Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English. Separate chapters analyzing the work of writers including Bernard Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Beckett build to provide a fresh and timely picture of Irish literary tradition. Informed by a wealth and diversity of scholarship, and written in a highly accessible style, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish literature.

Recenzje

this handsome volume stands as an enduring testament to the writing lives of the two people who predeceased it...The scholar and the critic cannot be separated; in this wonderful book, they read as one in the strong voice which was among the very first to proclaim the value of Anglo-Irish literature as a subject worthy of study in its own right.