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Author	Brown, Terence, 1944-
Title	The literature of Ireland : culture and criticism / Terence Brown.
Publication Info.	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 9	820.9 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	x, 281 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The literary revival: historical perspectives -- Joyce's magic lantern -- Music: the cultural issue -- Modernism and revolution: rereading Yeats's 'Easter 1916' -- Shakespeare and the Irish self -- Irish literature and the Great War -- Ireland, modernism and the 1930s -- Post-modernists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien -- Patrick Kavanagh: religious poet -- MacNeice's Ireland: MacNeice's Islands -- Louis MacNeice and the Second World War -- MacNeice and the puritan tradition -- John Hewitt and memory: a reflection -- Michael Longley and the Irish poetic tradition -- Seamus Heaney: the witnessing eye and the speaking tongue -- Derek Mahon: the poet and painting -- Telling tales: Kennelly's Cromwell and Muldoon's 'The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants' -- Redeeming the time: John McGahern and John Banvillle -- 'Have we a context?': transition, self and society in the drama of Brian Friel -- Hubert Butler and nationalism -- The Irish Dylan Thomas: versions and influences.
Subject	English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
	Literature and society -- Ireland.
	Ireland -- In literature.
Added Author	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2011. ZNS
ISBN	9780521118231
	0521118239
	9780521136525 (pbk.)
	0521136520 (pbk.)

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