A pocket history of Irish literature /
A. Norman Jeffares.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
OBrien Press,
1997.
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| Notes: | Physical description: 160 p. : ports. ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0862785022 |
Table of Contents:
The eighteenth century: rationalism, anti-colonialism, philosophy and comedy
Nineteenth century fiction before the famine
Romantic poetry, nationalism and the gothic
Social comedy with a message: Wilde and Shaw
Seriousness and humour in the novel
The literary revival
The Abbey in the 1920s and 1930s
Joyce and fiction: 1920s to 1940s
Poetry after Yeats
Samuel Beckett and modern drama
Novelists from the 1950s on
Contemporary poetry.
The eighteenth century: rationalism, anti-colonialism, philosophy and comedy
Nineteenth century fiction before the famine
Romantic poetry, nationalism and the gothic
Social comedy with a message: Wilde and Shaw
Seriousness and humour in the novel
The literary revival
The Abbey in the 1920s and 1930s
Joyce and fiction: 1920s to 1940s
Poetry after Yeats
Samuel Beckett and modern drama
Novelists from the 1950s on
Contemporary poetry.