Twentieth-Century Irish Literature

ISBN-13: 9780230517189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 216 str.

Aaron Kelly

Opis

This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It helps the reader to relate Irish literature and criticism to debates surrounding such issues as national identity and nationalism, modernity and the Revival period, armed stuggle, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism and the development of Irish studies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Irish Literature and Criticism in the Revival.- Irish Literature and Criticism After Partition.- The Development of Irish Studies: Contesting the Revival.- Irish Studies Paradigms and Literature After Partition.- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Irish Literature.- Contemporary Literature in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.- Conclusion: Irish Studies Today.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Suggested Primary Reading.- Index.

O autorze

AARON KELLY is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.