After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

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 s...

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Main Author: Kiberd, Declan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2018]
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Summary: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 a strange kind of hope for a more open nation
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Dez 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (576 Seiten)
ISBN:9780674981652
DOI:10.4159/9780674981652