Twentieth-Century Irish Literature (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

A. Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230517196 ISBN 13: 9780230517196

Publisher: Palgrave, 2008

This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It helps the reader to relate Irish literature and criticism to debates surrounding such issues as national identity and nationalism, modernity and the Revival period, armed stuggle, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism and the development of Irish studies.

Review:

'Consistently of a very high standard, lucidly written, and impressively comprehensive in coverage.' - Bernhard Klein, University of Essex, UK
 
'This critique encapsulates the ever-changing literary horizon of Ireland and condenses the key arguments and viewpoints into a clear, comprehensible framework...It is absolutely ideal for anyone who is interested in the interplay between culture and literature in Ireland.' - Adam Wilbourn, Times Higher Education Textbook Guide

Book Description:

A lively survey enabling students to understand the key critical debates, themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of twentieth-century Irish poets, playwrights and novelists.