After Ireland : : Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present / / Declan Kiberd.

Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and...

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Year of Publication:2018
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1. Introduction: After Ireland? --   |t 2. Beckett’s Inner Exile --   |t Interchapter – A Neutral Ireland? --   |t 3. ‘Gaeldom is Over’: The Bell --   |t 4. A Talking Corpse? Sáirséal agus Dill --   |t 5. A Parrot in Ringsend: Máire Mhac an tSaoi --   |t 6. Growing Up Absurd: Edna O’Brien and The Country Girls --   |t 7. Frank O’Connor: A Mammy’s Boy --   |t Interchapter – Secularization --   |t 8. Richard Power and The Hungry Grass --   |t Interchapter – Emigration --   |t 9. Emigration Once Again: Friel’s Philadelphia --   |t Interchapter – Northern Troubles --   |t 10. Seamus Heaney: The Death of Ritual and the Ritual of Death --   |t Interchapter – Europeanization --   |t 11. The Art of Science: Banville’s Doctor Copernicus --   |t 12. The Double Vision of Michael Hartnett --   |t 13. Brian Friel’s Faith Healer --   |t 14. Theatre as Opera: The Gigli Concert --   |t 15. Frank McGuinness and Observe the Sons --   |t 16. Derek Mahon’s Lost Worlds --   |t Interchapter – Irish Language --   |t 17. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh’s Daughter --   |t Interchapter – Women’s Movement --   |t 18. Eavan Boland: Outside History --   |t 19. John McGahern’s Amongst Women --   |t 20. Between First and Third World: Friel’s Lughnasa --   |t 21. Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha --   |t Interchapter – Peace Comes Dropping Slow --   |t 22. Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark --   |t 23. Reading Éilís Ní Dhuibhne --   |t 24. Making History: Joseph O’Connor --   |t 25. Fallen Nobility: McGahern’s Rising Sun --   |t 26. Conor McPherson: The Seafarer --   |t 27. Claire Keegan: Foster --   |t 28. Kate Thompson and The New Policeman --   |t 29. Conclusion: Going Global? --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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