Irish Essays
By: by Denis Donoghue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781107006904; 9780521187282
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: English literature; Literature and society; In literature; History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Irish authors
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.