2005, ISBN: 0300109946

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[EAN: 9780300109948], [PU: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press], Jacket, An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly we… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300109948], [PU: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press], Jacket, An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 350 pages; Description: x, 350 p. : ill. (some col. ), col. Maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-337) and index. Subjects: Literature and society --Ireland --History --20th century. Summary: In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, David Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland's two leading writers, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of Â"the harp and the crown. Â"The book draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland. Pierce then surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon, and John McGahern. 1 Kg., Books<

2005, ISBN: 9780300109948

Yale University Press. 2005, 350pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Pakketzending. In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert… Mehr…

Yale University Press. 2005, 350pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Pakketzending. In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland's two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of 'the harp and the crown'. Looking in particular at two decades taken from either half of the twentieth century, the book explores changes in the cultural landscape in the light of the colonial legacy. It draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State under de Valera enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland as a whole. Bringing the story to the present, Pierce surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon and John McGahern. ISBN: 9780300109948, Yale University Press, 0<

2005, ISBN: 0300109946

[EAN: 9780300109948], [SC: 6.85], [PU: Yale University Press.], Jacket, 2005, 350pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Pakketzending. In this absorbing analysis… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780300109948], [SC: 6.85], [PU: Yale University Press.], Jacket, 2005, 350pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. Pakketzending. In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland's two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of 'the harp and the crown'. Looking in particular at two decades taken from either half of the twentieth century, the book explores changes in the cultural landscape in the light of the colonial legacy. It draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State under de Valera enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland as a whole. Bringing the story to the present, Pierce surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon and John McGahern., Books<