On the uses of history in recent Irish writing / Bernhard Klein.
On the uses of history in recent Irish writing / Bernhard Klein.
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Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N820.99415/44
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English
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179 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Reclaiming the early modern -- 2. Pact into fiction: novels of the Irish Famine -- 3. Staging history in contemporary Irish drama -- 4. Historicising the Troubles in Northern Irish poetry.
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Publisher
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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"This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial 'nightmare' from which Joyce's Stephen Dedalus tried to awake, but as a rich, imaginative resource. Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cu...
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On the uses of history in recent Irish writing / Bernhard Klein.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-173) and index.
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N820.99415/44
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74VM8QM5JP4b
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0719075858
9780719075858
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991000249129702626
