After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature

by Neil Corcoran

Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts that have been the subject of much contention. For a start, how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in English by the Irish? It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articulated,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192892312
• ISBN13: 9780192892317
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"