Author: John Ellis Caerwyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.
The Irish Literary Tradition
Author: John Ellis Caerwyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. This book traces the development of manuscripts from the Latin records made by monastic scribes and the vernacular works of ecclesiastics and lay scholars. It describes the fall of the native order and offers appraisals of the work of Irish writers.
The Irish Literary Tradition
Author: John Ellis Caerwyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708310946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Ireland is a country where for over a thousand years one cultural force has overshadowed all others: the power of a great literary tradition. This book provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. Beginning with the introduction of writing into Ireland, it traces the development of manuscripts from the early Latin records made by monastic scribes to the vernacular works of ecclesiastic and lay scholars. It shows how convention and innovation combined to produce poetry of a consistently high artistic standard within a traditional framework. The latter half of the book concentrates on the fall of the native order and a final chapter on the revival offers critical appraisals of the work of recent and contemporary Irish writers and takes up such issues as the decline of the Irish language and the future of Irish-language literature. With a wealth of references to primary and secondary sources, this book is the first comprehensive survey of Irish-Gaelic literature since the publication of Douglas Hyde's Literary History of Ireland in 1899. First written in Welsh by J. E. Caerwyn Williams and published as Traddodiad Llenyddol Iwerddon (1958). The Irish Literary Tradition has been extensively revised and updated for publication in English.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708310946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Ireland is a country where for over a thousand years one cultural force has overshadowed all others: the power of a great literary tradition. This book provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth century to the twentieth. Beginning with the introduction of writing into Ireland, it traces the development of manuscripts from the early Latin records made by monastic scribes to the vernacular works of ecclesiastic and lay scholars. It shows how convention and innovation combined to produce poetry of a consistently high artistic standard within a traditional framework. The latter half of the book concentrates on the fall of the native order and a final chapter on the revival offers critical appraisals of the work of recent and contemporary Irish writers and takes up such issues as the decline of the Irish language and the future of Irish-language literature. With a wealth of references to primary and secondary sources, this book is the first comprehensive survey of Irish-Gaelic literature since the publication of Douglas Hyde's Literary History of Ireland in 1899. First written in Welsh by J. E. Caerwyn Williams and published as Traddodiad Llenyddol Iwerddon (1958). The Irish Literary Tradition has been extensively revised and updated for publication in English.
A Literary History of Ireland from Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Douglas Hyde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
Author: Charles D. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521419093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521419093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers
Author: Theresa O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813014579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy has evolved side by side with the canonical comic tradition. They call for a revisionist reading of Ireland's comic intellectual heritage - a reading from the perspectives of two genders - and demand a new kind of double optic - an interpretive frame of reference capable of grappling with difference. This collection will be of particular interest to Joyceans because it examines the influence of Joyce, who has been dismissed by many feminist critics as a pornographer and a champion of patriarchal privilege. It will also be of interest to students of African and African-American literature for its linking of Ireland's comic tradition to that of Africa's - a tradition noted for its use of ethical dialogue and for giving voice to the other.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813014579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy has evolved side by side with the canonical comic tradition. They call for a revisionist reading of Ireland's comic intellectual heritage - a reading from the perspectives of two genders - and demand a new kind of double optic - an interpretive frame of reference capable of grappling with difference. This collection will be of particular interest to Joyceans because it examines the influence of Joyce, who has been dismissed by many feminist critics as a pornographer and a champion of patriarchal privilege. It will also be of interest to students of African and African-American literature for its linking of Ireland's comic tradition to that of Africa's - a tradition noted for its use of ethical dialogue and for giving voice to the other.
Modern Irish Poetry
Author: Robert F. Garratt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition
The Irish Comic Tradition
Author: Vivian Mercier
Publisher: Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN: 9780285630185
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN: 9780285630185
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature
Author: Heather Ingman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108654584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature
Author: Margaret Kelleher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
A major event in Irish studies, this is the first comprehensive history of Irish literature over the past fifteen centuries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
A major event in Irish studies, this is the first comprehensive history of Irish literature over the past fifteen centuries.
Irish Writers and the Thirties
Author: Katrina Goldstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000291014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000291014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.