Inventing Ireland: Literature of the Modern Nation - Hardcover

Kiberd, Declan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224041975 ISBN 13: 9780224041973

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of Irish writing covers Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers down to Roddy Doyle.

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Review:

"A masterpiece...Kiberd is surely the finest critic of Irish literature." (Owen Dudley Edwards Scotsman)

"A critical study laced with wit, energy and unrelenting adroitness of discourse...A remarkable achievement." (Thomas Flanagan New York Times)

"Provocative, contentious, sly, tendentious, challenging, witty...A resounding success." (Gerry Dukes Irish Independent)

"Blessedly jargon-free, easy to read and - like all of Kilberd's work - full of bravura cleverness." (Roy Foster The Times)

Book Description:

INVENTING IRELAND is the most ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature to have been published for many years. Declan Kiberd argues that the Irish literary revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. He develops his story through subtle and surprising readings of Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Heaney, Friel and younger writers to Roddy Doyle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0224041975
• ISBN 13: 9780224041973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736