Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature [electronic resource] /
Ulin, J.author.
Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface: A Modern Medieval Obituary; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Medieval Causes; 1 Modern Disruptions; John Quincy Adams and Medieval Moral History; The "Modern Machine" of the Medieval Romance; Rehabilitating Dervorgilla; Anachronism and Medieval Time(s); Mapping the Medieval City; 2 Medieval Cycles; Lady Gregory and the Medieval Memory on the Modern Irish Stage; Masking the Medieval in W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones; James Joyce's Medieval Mise en Abyme; Stephen Dedalus's Medieval Initials
The "Obscene Jostle" of "Cyclops"Breaking the Cycle in "Eumaeus" and "Ithaca"; 3 Modern Escapes; Seán O'Faoláin and "The Great 'If Only' "; Relocating the Medieval in Brendan Behan's The New House; Rehabilitating Diarmuid Mac Murrough; Medieval Plague and Modern Cure in Frank Herbert's The White Plague; The (Medieval) Closet in Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys; Conclusion: Medieval Genealogies and a Modern Medieval Obituary; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill.
Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, 1110?-1171
Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?
Literature, Medieval.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Poetry.
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Medieval Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.