The Irish writer and the world / Declan Kiberd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiberd, Declan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland.

Irish literature.

Writers, Irish--Literary Criticism.

Writers, Irish.

Physical Description:

xi, 331 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's foremost scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the awardwinning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's work over twenty-five years demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences across the world.

Contents:

2 The fall of the Stage Irishman (1979) 21

3 Storytelling: the Gaelic tradition (1978) 42

4 Writers in quarantine? The case for Irish Studies (1979) 52

5 Synge, Yeats and bardic poetry (2002) 70

6 George Moore's Gaelic lawn party (1979) 91

7 The flowering tree: modern poetry in Irish (1989) 105

8 On national culture (2001) 127

9 White skins, black masks: Celticism and Negritude (1996) 133

10 From nationalism to liberation (1997) 146

11 The war against the past (1988) 158

12 The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness (1991) 191

13 Reinventing England (1999) 208

14 Museums and learning (2003) 219

15 Joyce's Ellmann, Ellmann's Joyce (1999) 235

16 Multiculturalism and artistic freedom: the strange death of Liberal Europe (1993) 250

17 The Celtic Tiger: a cultural history (2003) 269

18 The city in Irish culture (2002) 289

19 Strangers in their own country: multiculturalism in Ireland (2001) 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521602572

OCLC:

61296379