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Irish Writers on Writing
Eavan Boland
出版
Trinity University Press
, 2007
主題
History / Europe / Ireland
Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship
Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
1595340297
9781595340290
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qbllAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
What does it mean to be a writer in the context of a country's centuries of uncertainty and upheaval? How does an Irish writer define Irish writing? The writers here, who range from early legends like Yeats to modern masters like Roddy Doyle, address these questions through their sources: the land, the Church, the past, and changing politics and literary styles. The book begins with William Yeats and Augusta Gregory's dazzling meditations on the founding of the National Theatre as a venue for a new Irish imagination. Lady Gregory herself is the subject of pithy essays by Kate O'Brien and Colm Toibin. Poets discuss their peers -- Corkery on the Gaelic poets; Frank O'Connor on Corkery; O'Casey on Yeats; Roddy Doyle on Synge. Emma Donoghue illuminates the life of a lesbian Irish writer, while John Banville excoriates Bloomsday and "the pervasiveness and bathos of the Joyce myth."
Irish Writers on Writing
raises a toast to one of the world's most vital literary traditions.