Small World

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-84086-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Seamus Deane is one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. His new book presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical and trenchant, it addresses the political, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island's past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke's political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce's and of Elizabeth Bowen's relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns's fiction – these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature's most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deane, Seamus

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cleary, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Joe Cleary; 1. Swift as Classic; 2. Burke in the USA; 3. Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire; 4. Imperialism and Nationalism; 5. Irish National Character 1790–1900; 6. Civilians and Barbarians; 7. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; 8. Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion; 9. Dead Ends: Joyce's Finest Moments; 10. Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death: The House in Paris; 11. Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One; 12. Mary Lavin: Celibates; 13. Emergency Aesthetics; 14. Wherever Green is Read; 15. The Famous Seamus; 16. The End of the World.

Über Autor(innen)

Deane, Seamus
Seamus Deane is a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England; and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and has written four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than twenty languages and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. Formerly of University College, Dublin, he is Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.