A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.
Seamus Deane Poradie kníh
9. február 1940 – 12. máj 2021
Táto autorka je uznávanou poetkou, kritičkou, prozaičkou a pedagogičkou. Jej tvorba sa často zameriava na témy írskej identity a kultúrneho dedičstva. Prostredníctvom svojej jedinečnej prózy a poézie skúma zložité ľudské vzťahy a spoločenské otázky. Jej prístup k písaniu je hlboko premyslený a literárne náročný.
- 2021
- 2010
A collection of six plays by Irish playwright Brian Friel.
- 2003
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 384 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
"The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique"-- Provided by publisher
- 1999
The book examines the development of a distinct national tradition in Irish literature, beginning with the impact of Edmund Burke's writings during the French Revolution. It explores key works from authors like Gerald Griffin, Bram Stoker, and James Joyce, highlighting themes of national identity, conflict, and the tension between modernity and tradition. The narrative reveals how Irish print culture, encompassing novels, songs, and poems, navigates the complexities of its colonial legacy, ultimately leading to a deeper understanding of Ireland’s literary achievements.
- 1996
A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s; a place that is also haunted by political enmities, family secrets, lethal intrigue. The boy narrator of READING IN THE DARK grows up enclosed in these two worlds, sensing that they are intertwined in some mysterious ways that he both wants and does not want to discover. Through the silence that surrounds him, he feels the truth spreading like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, READING IN THE DARK is one of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.
- 1986
Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's most important critics, assesses here the place of literature in "a colonial or neo-colonial culture like ours, where the naming of the territory has always been ... a politically charged act." The force of Deane's A Short History of Irish Literature derives precisely from his naming of the territory. With insight, erudition, and a razor-keen style, he locates Irish writers within the island's traumatic history. His aim is to show how literature has been inescapably allied with historical interpretation and with political allegiance.
- 1975
