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| Named Person: | Seamus Heaney; Samuel Beckett; William B Yeats; James Joyce |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Lloyd |
| ISBN: | 0822313448 9780822313441 082231326X 9780822313267 |
| OCLC Number: | 27678841 |
| Description: | x, 174 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 'Pap for the dispossessed' Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Identity -- Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism and the Colonial Subject -- The poetics of Politics: Yeats and the Founding of the State -- Adulteration and the Nation -- Violence and the Constitution of the novel. |
| Responsibility: | David Lloyd. |
Abstract:
Anomalous States is an archaeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of identity were first formed. In five linked essays, he explores modern Irish literature and its political contexts through the work of four Irish writers - Heaney, Beckett, Yeats, and Joyce. Beginning with Heaney and Beckett, Lloyd shows how in these authors the question of identity connects with the dominance of conservative cultural nationalism and argues for the need to understand Irish culture in relation to the wider experience of colonized societies. A central essay reads Yeats's later works as a profound questioning of the founding of the state. Final essays examine the gradual formation of the state and nation's one element in a cultural process that involves conflict between popular cultural forms and emerging political economies of nationalism and the colonial state. Modern Ireland is thus seen as the product of a continuing process in which, Lloyd argues, the passage to national independence that defines Ireland's post-colonial status is no more that a moment in its continuing history. Anomalous States stands at the intersection of two strands of debate: that of culture and politics in contemporary Ireland and that of post-colonialism and cultural politics, for which Irish history furnishes an invaluable example.
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- English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Literature and anthropology -- Ireland.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Ireland -- In literature.
- Nationalism -- Ireland.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Heaney, Seamus
- Beckett, Samuel
- Yeats, William B.
- Joyce, James
- Literatur
- Politik
- Geschichte (1920-1990)
- Nationalbewusstsein
- Irland
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