Theorizing Ireland

by CLAIRE CONNOLLY

Overview

A new kind of writing about Irish culture has emerged in recent years, the best examples of which are gathered in this volume. Joining political, linguistic, social, and historical approaches to culture, these essays have substantially altered the critical climate of Irish Studies. The Introduction provides a vantage point from which to survey the contemporary critical and cultural currents, while the summaries, glossary, and notes for further reading will assist readers who wish to explore in greater depth this challenging and contested field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333803974
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/04/2002
Series:	Readers in Cultural Criticism , #13
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

CLAIRE CONNOLLY is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.
CLAIRE CONNOLLY is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ireland in Theory; C. Connolly
Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; S. Deane
The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend; A. Bourke
'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney; P. Coughlan
To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin; S. Richards
Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema; L. Gibbons
Changing the Question; T. Eagleton
Misplaced Ideas?: Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies; J. Cleary
The Nineteenth-Century Novel; S. Kilfeather
Tantalized by Progress; C. Morash
The Politics of Poetic Form; C. Wills
'In the Midst of all this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent; R. Kirkland
Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Post-Colonial Irishness; C. Graham
The Spirit of the Nation; D. Lloyd
Summaries and Notes
Further Reading
Index.

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From the Publisher

Claire Connolly has done Irish Studies a service by bringing together a rich and at times surprising collection of materials which speak well to each other ....Connolly's selection ... includes important emergent voices as well as dominant ones and covers a range of cultural forms - poetry, fiction, drama, material culture, political discourse. It therefore provides an excellent introduction to general concerns through examples of some of the most stimulating cultural criticism in the field.' - David Alderson, University of Manchester

'this book will be warmly recieved by students, teachers and other interested readers. Quite simply, Theorizing Ireland comprises an exceptional selection of critical essays, which is richly annotated and thoroughly introduced.' - Paul Delaney, The Irish Review