Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Clarendon Lectures in English)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198184905 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
"Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."--MLN
This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.
P. N. Meihuizen said Articulate, knotty, elliptical.. A densely written work, brimming with an almost Jesuit obsession with intellectual precision. It certainly illuminates aspects of the literature it refers to, but it tends to favour its own theoretical matrix (as does so much contemporary theory). Worth the effort to read, but one can't help feeling that Heaney says as much in more accessible terms.