Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland from Yeats to Field Day /

This book is a genealogy of reconciliation in modern Ireland. As Seamus Deane has written, reconciliation stands at a nexus between politics and aesthetics in Irish writing, and has therefore often been a vehicle of colonial ideology. This book shows that the term often fits into a pattern that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wallace, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Greek literature, Hellenistic.
Reconciliation.
English literature > Irish authors.
Ireland > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • W.B. Yeats' Free State Hellenism
  • Conor Cruise O'Brien's sacred dramas
  • Tom Paulin at the gates of Thebes (and Derry and Hillsborough)
  • Seamus Heaney's poetics of human rights
  • Field Day's daylight gods
  • Conclusion : anthologising reconciliation.

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