Irelands in the Asia-Pacific
By: edited by Peter Kuch and Julie-Ann Robson.
Contributors: Kuch, Peter, 1948-; Robson, Julie-Ann.
Series: Irish literary studies series,; v. 52; Irish literary studies ;; 52.
Publisher: Colin Smythe; Colin Smythe Ltd
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; English literature -- Irish authors -- Appreciation -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.; English literature -- Irish authors -- Study and teaching -- Pacific Region -- Congresses.; English literature -- Irish authors -- Study and teaching -- Australia -- Congresses.; English literature -- Irish authors -- Study and teaching -- Asia -- Congresses.; Irish philology -- Study and teaching -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Since Mary McAleese embraced the expatriate and emigrant Irish in her inaugural Presidential address, much has been made of the global Irish family. This exciting collection of essays by a group of eminent scholars explores the teaching and research of Irish literature in a region of the world that has scouted the attractions of western culture since the sixteenth century. Three or four centuries later those attractions, as far as the Irish are concerned, have become specific." "Irelands in the Asia-Pacific explores these in a sequence of twenty-six articles grouped under the headings of: Writing an Irish Self; Joyce at large; Post-Colonial readings of Irish Literature; Antipodean Connections; Teaching Irish Literature in the Asia-Pacific; and Irish Literature Down-Under."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers originally delivered at a conference on Irish literature in the Asia-Pacific Region held at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Jan. 4-10, 1998.