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Colonial Consequences
John Wilson Foster
其他書名
Essays in Irish Literature and Culture
出版Lilliput Press, 1991
主題History / Europe / IrelandLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN09466404679780946640461
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wDpaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916', to the literature and life-styles of Northern Ireland. They give eloquent, close readings of specific writers - Kavanagh, Hewitt, Rodgers, Montague, Murphy, Donoghue - and at the heart of the book Foster expands on his 1974 study of Seamus Heaney with a new and challenging analysis of the poet as a deeply political writer, working through cultural traditions that are questioned, while respected. The volume concludes with recent essays which have made Foster an important figure in the current debate over political meanings and cultural trends in a riven, unsettled society. An unusual, personal introduction by the author retraces the steps that led him to these combative and penetrating inquiries. Scholarly, engaged and readably written, locally rooted yet globally perceived, they provide a rich matrix of interpretation which frames the past while clarifying the future.