Irish Literature Since 1990 Diverse Voices / edited by Scott Brewster and Michael Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewster, Scott

Contributor:

Parker, Michael, 1949-

Brewster, Scott (Reader in English Literature)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Irish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : digital, PDF/HTML file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester Manchester University Press 2011

New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of official French republicanism, the broader European and American civic republican tradition and the contemporary revival of this tradition of citizenship. Academics from different disciplines, along with statesmen and politicians from different political perspectives, are brought together to examine the relationship of historical and contemporary Irish republicanism to the wider republican theoretical tradition. The book analyses political positions among those parties describing themselves as republican in Ireland in the twenty-first century and examines the possible relevance of the ideas of the broader republican tradition for future politics in Ireland.

Contents:

Changing history: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 / Michael Parker

Flying high? Culture, criticism, theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster

Home places: Irish Drama since 1990 / Clare Wallace and Ondřej Pílný

Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Mária Kurdi

The stuff of tragedy? Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche

New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier

Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh

Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins

The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper

Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinéad Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker

Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte

Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson

Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan

Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch

What's it like being Irish?: The return of the repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer / Jennifer M. Jeffers

Remembering to forget: Northern Irish fiction after the troubles / Neal Alexander

What do I say when they wheel out their dead?: The representation of violence in Northern Irish art / Shane Alcobia-Murphy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781847795052

1847795056

OCLC:

1103687442

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access