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- catalog abstract "Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism. The result is a major literary history of modern Ireland, combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival. Inventing Ireland restores to the Irish past a sense of openness that it once had and that has since been obscured by narrow-gauge nationalists and their polemical revisionist critics. In closing, Kiberd outlines an agenda for Irish studies in the next century and detects the signs of a second renaissance in the work of a new generation of authors and playwrights, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers.".
- catalog contributor b9031325.
- catalog coverage "Ireland Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [655]-699) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- A new England called Ireland? -- Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form -- Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory -- Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire -- Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism -- Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters.".
- catalog description "Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism. The result is a major literary history of modern Ireland, combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival. Inventing Ireland restores to the Irish past a sense of openness that it once had and that has since been obscured by narrow-gauge nationalists and their polemical revisionist critics. In closing, Kiberd outlines an agenda for Irish studies in the next century and detects the signs of a second renaissance in the work of a new generation of authors and playwrights, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers.".
- catalog description "Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod" -- Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.".
- catalog extent "xi, 719 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0674463633 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Convergences".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland".
- catalog subject "820.9/9415 20".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Irish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Irish literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Irish, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism Ireland History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR8753 .K53 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- A new England called Ireland? -- Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form -- Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory -- Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire -- Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism -- Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod" -- Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.".
- catalog title "Inventing Ireland / Declan Kiberd.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".