Literature, rhetoric, and violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98
Subtitle: hardened to death
By: Patrick Grant.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; Authors, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Northern Ireland.; English language -- Northern Ireland -- Rhetoric.; Political violence in literature.; Social conflict in literature.; Violence in literature.; Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life.; Northern Ireland -- In literature.
Description: "During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages with the participates in this war of words.".

"The book places the Northern Ireland conflict within a broad European debate about the legitimate use of force, deriving from a dialogue between ancient ideals of Roman civic virtue (exemplified by Vergil's Aeneid) and Christian teachings about the kingdom (as depicted in the gospels)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167)and index.