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Farming in modern Irish literature / Nicholas Grene.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grene, Nicholas, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Agriculture in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This innovative study analyses the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-260553-4
- 0-19-189335-8
- 0-19-260552-6
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