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Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

By Nicholas Allen

Ireland, Literature, and the Coast Contemporary literature

Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

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The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including EilÃ(c)an NÃ- Chuilleanàin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.
Product details
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2020-11-24
Publication Date:
2020-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019885787X
ISBN13:
9780198857877
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
646 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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