Inventing Ireland

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kiberd Declan.
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: 1995.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Convergences
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Carrier Form: xi, 719 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0674463641
Index Number: I562
CLC: I562.09
I562.06
Call Number: I562.06/K462-2
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A new England called Ireland? -- Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form -- Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory -- Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire -- Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism -- Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters -- Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod" -- Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.