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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mercier, Vivian, 1919-1989. Modern Irish literature. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)681850691 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vivian Mercier; Eilís Dillon |
| ISBN: | 0198120745 9780198120742 |
| OCLC Number: | 28504018 |
| Description: | xvii, 381 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Declan Kiberd -- 1. The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Past -- 2. Irish Writers and English Readers: Literature and Politics 1798-1845 -- 3. Evangelical Revival in the Church of Ireland, 1800-69 -- 4. The Revival Begins -- 5. Bernard Shaw: Irish International -- 6. W. B. Yeats: Master Craftsman -- 7. John Millington Synge: Devil or Saint? -- 8. James Joyce: Creating Ulysses -- 9. 'All That Fall': Samuel Beckett and the Bible -- 10. European-Irish Literary Connections in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix: Published Works of Vivian Mercier. |
| Responsibility: | Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eilís Dillon. |
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Abstract:
"Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing." "Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, in which he traced the continuity of attitudes and subjects of Irish writers from pre-Christian times to the present, Professor Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English. Separate chapters analysing the work of writers including Bernard Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Beckett build to provide a fresh and timely picture of Irish literary tradition." "Informed by a wealth and diversity of scholarship, and written in a highly accessible style, the book stands as a memorial to the achievement of Vivian Mercier and as an important contribution to the study of Irish literature."--BOOK JACKET.
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