Screen LibraryIrish elegies
"Arthur's marvelous essays get to grips, evocatively and obliquely, with ideas of ancestry, continuity, attitudes and allegiances - all in a volatile Irish context ...Taking a wide view, as he does, he can't escape an awareness of endless complexity underlying every moment and every p...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New directions in Irish & Irish American literature |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230622494 |
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"Arthur's marvelous essays get to grips, evocatively and obliquely, with ideas of ancestry, continuity, attitudes and allegiances - all in a volatile Irish context ...Taking a wide view, as he does, he can't escape an awareness of endless complexity underlying every moment and every perception; but, far from fostering vagueness, this results in unimpeachable precision." - Times Literary Supplement "The deliberation with which he writes recalls a woodcutter, polishing his creations until they give off a deep, burnished glow." - Belfast Telegraph "Whatever his subject, Arthur uses language that pares away at the core of experience with a care and precision we have grown unused to, chasing away cliches of thought as well as of phrase. Even in a rare genre, he's a rare writer indeed." - The Scotsman "Chris Arthur's essay collections should not only put him on the map as the contemporary Irish essayist, but also raise general interest in the possibilities of the essay form for our time." - Graham Good, Southern Humanities Review. |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 196 p. |
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9780230615342 9780230622494 : 0230622496 : |
| CLC: | K562.5 |
| Contents: | Foreword: The Willow is Green, the Flower is Red * (En)trance * Rosary * On Not Being Who You Think You Are * Bookmarks * Wisdom's Garden * How's the Form? * Thirty-six Views, None of Mount Fuji * Falling Memory * Broken Flags * Object Lesson on Qualia with No Mention of This Term * Essay on the Esse * Last Words. |