Back to the Present: Forward to the Past, Volume II
Irish Writing and History since 1798
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-90-420-2038-2 (ISBN)
Description
The island of Ireland, north and south, has produced a great diversity of writing in both English and Irish for hundreds of years, often using the memories embodied in its competing views of history as a fruitful source of literary inspiration. Placing Irish literature in an international context, these two volumes explore the connection between Irish history and literature, in particular the Rebellion of 1798, in a more comprehensive, diverse and multi-faceted way than has often been the case in the past. The fifty-three authors bring their national and personal viewpoints as well as their critical judgements to bear on Irish literature in these stimulating articles. The contributions also deal with topics such as Gothic literature, ideology, and identity, as well as gender issues, connections with the other arts, regional Irish literature, in particular that of the city of Limerick, translations, the works of Joyce, and comparisons with the literature of other nations. The contributors are all members of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798 will be of interest to both literary scholars and professional historians, but also to the general student of Irish writing and Irish culture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
826 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2038-2 (9789042020382)
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Persons
The editors, Dr Patricia A. Lynch, Dr Joachim Fischer, and Dr Brian Coates, are all members of the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies of the University of Limerick, Ireland. Their fields of expertise lie in the literature, language and cultural aspects of Ireland, Germany, and Britain, and to the connections between these areas.
Content
Out of Limerick: Kate O'Brien - Frank McCourt
Maria de la CINTA RAMBLADO MINERO: Kate O'Brien as a "Herstorical" Writer: The Personal Story of Women
Clare WALLACE: Judgement in Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices
Taura S. NAPIER: "External Impressions of Life": The Paradoxical Autobiographies of Kate O'Brien
Karin ZETTL: Transcending Borders - Limerick, Ireland, Europe: Kate O'Brien as Critic and Novelist
M. Casey DIANA: To Heal and Be Healed: Reading Angela's Ashes
Alexandra HENDRIOK: Angela's Ashes: Myth and the Memoir of an Irish Survivor
Paul ROBINSON: Angela in America: Frank McCourt's Memoir
Regionalism
Malcolm BALLIN: Regionalism and Realism in The Bell
Thomas O'GRADY: Putting Benedict Kiely in His Place
Kristin MORRISON: Ireland and the Sea: Where is "The Mainland"?
Irish Writing and Translation
Maurice HARMON: The Colloquy of the Old Men: Shape and Substance
Sean MYTHEN: Thomas Furlong: The Case for the Reassessment of a Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Poet and Journalist
Rui CARVALHO HOMEM: "Their Jealous Art": Translators, Precursors and Epigones in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
John HILDEBIDLE: Translation and Retranslation? Field Day and the Reversal of Cultural Colonizations
Anthony MCCANN: "Ar Lorg na Gaoithe": The Impossibility of Translating Seamas Mac Annaidh's Cuaifeach Mo Londubh Bui into English
Joyce and Identity
Patrick BOHAN: National Poets and Joyce
Marisol MORALES LADRON: James Joyce's Anxiety of Influence: His Place Inside and Outside the Irish Literary Tradition
Eugene O'BRIEN: "Identities in the Writer Complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities
Countervoices In Irish Writing
Hiroyuki YAMASAKI: Yeats' Representation of Romantic Ireland: His Obsession with Proper or Singular Nouns
Joanny MOULIN: Seamus Heaney's Versus, or Poetry as Still Revolution
Ake PERSSON: Brendan Kennelly's Poetry My Arse (1995): An Alternative Ars(e) Poetica
Shane MURPHY: Intertextual Relations in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry
Giovanna TALLONE: "That Is a Lie": Verbal Deceit in Friel's The Communication Cord
Klaus-Gunnar SCHNEIDER: AnOther History of Irish Literature: Creating Spaces for the Homosexual in Irish Prose
Ireland and the Wider World
B. R. SIEGFRIED: Shadows of an Irish Grace on the Elizabethan Stage: A Prelude to Further Readings of Shakespeare
Donatella ABBATE BADIN: Lady Morgan's Italy: Travel Book or Political Tract?
Giovanni PILLONCA: Marking Time: Some Considerations on Dante's Presence in Station Island
Nicholas MEIHUIZEN: The Poetics of Violence: The Parallel Case of Seamus Heaney and Mongane Wally Serote
Mary M. F. MASSOUD: Historic or Comic? The Irishness of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index
Maria de la CINTA RAMBLADO MINERO: Kate O'Brien as a "Herstorical" Writer: The Personal Story of Women
Clare WALLACE: Judgement in Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices
Taura S. NAPIER: "External Impressions of Life": The Paradoxical Autobiographies of Kate O'Brien
Karin ZETTL: Transcending Borders - Limerick, Ireland, Europe: Kate O'Brien as Critic and Novelist
M. Casey DIANA: To Heal and Be Healed: Reading Angela's Ashes
Alexandra HENDRIOK: Angela's Ashes: Myth and the Memoir of an Irish Survivor
Paul ROBINSON: Angela in America: Frank McCourt's Memoir
Regionalism
Malcolm BALLIN: Regionalism and Realism in The Bell
Thomas O'GRADY: Putting Benedict Kiely in His Place
Kristin MORRISON: Ireland and the Sea: Where is "The Mainland"?
Irish Writing and Translation
Maurice HARMON: The Colloquy of the Old Men: Shape and Substance
Sean MYTHEN: Thomas Furlong: The Case for the Reassessment of a Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Poet and Journalist
Rui CARVALHO HOMEM: "Their Jealous Art": Translators, Precursors and Epigones in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
John HILDEBIDLE: Translation and Retranslation? Field Day and the Reversal of Cultural Colonizations
Anthony MCCANN: "Ar Lorg na Gaoithe": The Impossibility of Translating Seamas Mac Annaidh's Cuaifeach Mo Londubh Bui into English
Joyce and Identity
Patrick BOHAN: National Poets and Joyce
Marisol MORALES LADRON: James Joyce's Anxiety of Influence: His Place Inside and Outside the Irish Literary Tradition
Eugene O'BRIEN: "Identities in the Writer Complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities
Countervoices In Irish Writing
Hiroyuki YAMASAKI: Yeats' Representation of Romantic Ireland: His Obsession with Proper or Singular Nouns
Joanny MOULIN: Seamus Heaney's Versus, or Poetry as Still Revolution
Ake PERSSON: Brendan Kennelly's Poetry My Arse (1995): An Alternative Ars(e) Poetica
Shane MURPHY: Intertextual Relations in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry
Giovanna TALLONE: "That Is a Lie": Verbal Deceit in Friel's The Communication Cord
Klaus-Gunnar SCHNEIDER: AnOther History of Irish Literature: Creating Spaces for the Homosexual in Irish Prose
Ireland and the Wider World
B. R. SIEGFRIED: Shadows of an Irish Grace on the Elizabethan Stage: A Prelude to Further Readings of Shakespeare
Donatella ABBATE BADIN: Lady Morgan's Italy: Travel Book or Political Tract?
Giovanni PILLONCA: Marking Time: Some Considerations on Dante's Presence in Station Island
Nicholas MEIHUIZEN: The Poetics of Violence: The Parallel Case of Seamus Heaney and Mongane Wally Serote
Mary M. F. MASSOUD: Historic or Comic? The Irishness of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index