Theorizing Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780333803974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 215 str.

Claire Connolly

Opis

A new kind of writing about Irish culture has emerged in recent years, the best examples of which are gathered in this volume. Joining political, linguistic, social and historical approaches to culture, these essays have substantially altered the critical climate of Irish Studies. The Introduction provides a vantage point from which to survey the contemporary critical and cultural currents, while the summaries, glossary and notes for further reading will assist readers who wish to explore in greater depth this challenging and contested field.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Ireland in Theory; C. Connolly.- Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; S. Deane.- The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend; A. Bourke.- 'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney; P. Coughlan.- To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin; S. Richards.- Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema; L. Gibbons.- Changing the Question; T. Eagleton.- Misplaced Ideas?: Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies; J. Cleary.- The Nineteenth-Century Novel; S. Kilfeather.- Tantalized by Progress; C. Morash.- The Politics of Poetic Form; C. Wills.- 'In the Midst of all this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent; R. Kirkland.- Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Post-Colonial Irishness; C. Graham.- The Spirit of the Nation; D. Lloyd.- Summaries and Notes.- Further Reading.- Index.

O autorze

CLAIRE CONNOLLY is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.