After Ireland : Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present / Declan Kiberd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiberd, Declan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Irish literature.

National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

First Harvard University Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland's sovereignty-a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland's founding spirit-and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: After Ireland?

2. Beckett's Inner Exile

Interchapter - A Neutral Ireland?

3. 'Gaeldom is Over': The Bell

4. A Talking Corpse? Sáirséal agus Dill

5. A Parrot in Ringsend: Máire Mhac an tSaoi

6. Growing Up Absurd: Edna O'Brien and The Country Girls

7. Frank O'Connor: A Mammy's Boy

Interchapter - Secularization

8. Richard Power and The Hungry Grass

Interchapter - Emigration

9. Emigration Once Again: Friel's Philadelphia

Interchapter - Northern Troubles

10. Seamus Heaney: The Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death

Interchapter - Europeanization

11. The Art of Science: Banville's Doctor Copernicus

12. The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett

13. Brian Friel's Faith Healer

14. Theatre as Opera: The Gigli Concert

15. Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons

16. Derek Mahon's Lost Worlds

Interchapter - Irish Language

17. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh's Daughter

Interchapter - Women's Movement

18. Eavan Boland: Outside History

19. John McGahern's Amongst Women

20. Between First and Third World: Friel's Lughnasa

21. Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Interchapter - Peace Comes Dropping Slow

22. Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark

23. Reading Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

24. Making History: Joseph O'Connor

25. Fallen Nobility: McGahern's Rising Sun

26. Conor McPherson: The Seafarer

27. Claire Keegan: Foster

28. Kate Thompson and The New Policeman

29. Conclusion: Going Global?

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Other Edition:

Preceded by: 9781786693228 Kiberd, Declan. London : Head of Zeus, 2017

ISBN:

0-674-98166-9

0-674-98165-0

OCLC:

1059417979