Irish Essays
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- Author: Denis Donoghue, New York University
- Date Published: May 2011
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- isbn: 9780521187282
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Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity that underlie the finest achievements of Irish writing in all genres. Together, the essays form an unusually lively and far-reaching study of three crucial Irish writers – Swift, Yeats and Joyce – together with other voices including Mangan, Beckett, Trevor, McGahern and Doyle. Donoghue's forceful arguments, deep engagement with the critical tradition, buoyant prose and extensive learning are all exemplified in this collection. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.
Read more- Denis Donoghue is one of the foremost academic critics of Irish literature
- This volume makes his best work available to students and scholars
- Essays on Swift, Joyce, Yeats and several contemporary Irish authors
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"...quite possibly, the best short introduction to Joyce’s masterpiece."
The Washington PostSee more reviewsA Critical Force to be Reckoned With ".. his latest collection of essays, which spans some fifteen years of vigorous intellectual engagement, demonstrates the seemingly casual force of a mind of unusual keenness and judgement." -- James Joyce Literacy Supplement
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521187282
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Ireland:
1. Race, nation, state
Part II. On Swift:
2. Reading Gulliver's Travels
3. Swift and the association of ideas
Part III. On Yeats:
4. Three presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound
5. The occult Yeats
6. Yeats's Shakespeare
7. Yeats: trying to be modern
Part IV. On Joyce:
8. A plain approach to Ulysses
9. Joyce and the revolution of the word
Part V. Other Occasions:
10. Mangan
11. Beckett in Foxrock
12. William Trevor
13. John McGahern
14. The early Roddy Doyle
Bibliography
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Modern Irish Literature
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