After Ireland :
writing the nation from Beckett to the present /
Declan Kiberd.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press edition. |
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| Notes: | "First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Head of Zeus Ltd, First Floor East, 5-8 Hardwick Street, London ECIR 3RG"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-528) and index. Physical description: xiii, 540 pages ; 22 cm more |
| ISBN: | 9780674976566 0674976568 |
Table of Contents:
Introduction :After Ireland?
Beckett's inner exile
Interchapter :A neutral Ireland?
'Gaeldom is over' : The bell
A talking corpse? : Sáirséal agus Dill
A parrot in Ringsend : Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The Country Girls
Frank O'Connor : A Mammy's Boy
Interchapter :Secularization
Richard Power and The Hungry Grass
Interchapter :Emigration
Emigration once again : Friel's Philadelphia
Interchapter :Northern Troubles
Seamus Heaney : the Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death
Interchapter :Europeanization
The art of science : Banville's Doctor Copernicus
The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett
Brian Friel's Faith Healer
Theatre as Opera : The Gigli Concert
Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons
Derek Mahon's Lost Worlds
Interchapter :Irish language
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : Pharaoh's Daughter
Interchapter :Women's movement
Eavan Boland : Outside History
John McGahern's Amongst women
Between first and third world : Friel's Lughnasa
Roddy Doyle : Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Interchapter :Peace comes dropping slow
Seamus Deane : Reading in the dark
Reading Éilis NÍ Dhuibhne
Making history : Joseph O'Connor
Fallen nobility : McGahern's Rising Sun
Conor McPherson : The Seafarer
Claire Keegan : Foster
Kate Thompson and The New Policeman
Conclusion.Going global?
Introduction :After Ireland?
Beckett's inner exile
Interchapter :A neutral Ireland?
'Gaeldom is over' : The bell
A talking corpse? : Sáirséal agus Dill
A parrot in Ringsend : Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The Country Girls
Frank O'Connor : A Mammy's Boy
Interchapter :Secularization
Richard Power and The Hungry Grass
Interchapter :Emigration
Emigration once again : Friel's Philadelphia
Interchapter :Northern Troubles
Seamus Heaney : the Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death
Interchapter :Europeanization
The art of science : Banville's Doctor Copernicus
The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett
Brian Friel's Faith Healer
Theatre as Opera : The Gigli Concert
Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons
Derek Mahon's Lost Worlds
Interchapter :Irish language
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : Pharaoh's Daughter
Interchapter :Women's movement
Eavan Boland : Outside History
John McGahern's Amongst women
Between first and third world : Friel's Lughnasa
Roddy Doyle : Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Interchapter :Peace comes dropping slow
Seamus Deane : Reading in the dark
Reading Éilis NÍ Dhuibhne
Making history : Joseph O'Connor
Fallen nobility : McGahern's Rising Sun
Conor McPherson : The Seafarer
Claire Keegan : Foster
Kate Thompson and The New Policeman
Conclusion.Going global?