Book excerpt: This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. This book was released on with total page pages. Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980: Volume 5 Authorĭownload or read book Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980: Volume 5 written by Eve Patten and published by Cambridge University Press. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs,memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere.'Stephen Regan's anthology vividly and valiantly presents a nation, and a national literature, coming into being.' Paul Muldoon
Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The anthology includes a wide-ranging and generous selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice, the anthology shows how, in forging a tradition of theirown, Irish writers have continually challenged and renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. YeatsThis anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence.
Book excerpt: 'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. This book was released on 2004 with total page 549 pages. : Lecturer in Modern Poetry Royal Holloway Stephen Reganĭownload or read book Irish Writing written by Lecturer in Modern Poetry Royal Holloway Stephen Regan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Book excerpt: With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1351 pages.
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century Authorĭownload or read book Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century written by David Pierce and published by Cork University Press.
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