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Engaging modernity : readings of Irish politics, culture, and literature at the turn of the century / edited by Michael Böss and Eamon Maher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Veritas, 2003.Description: 234 p. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 1853906425
  • 9781853906428:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.99417
Contents:
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General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 820.99417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 72189

Contains a selection of papers from a conference held December 2001 at University of Aarhus, Denmark, under the auspices of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.

[PART 1: Taking stock] "Spiritually closer to Boston than Berlin"?: Ireland between Europe and America / J.J. Lee.

[PART 2: Religion, morality and the modern state] Catholic church, religious capital and symbolic domination / T. Inglis -- Re-imagining transcendence in the global village / C. Maignant -- Catholicism in the writings of John McGahern / E. Maher.

[PART 3: Re-imagining nation and history] "After the big house": W.B. Yeats's Purgatory: All things must pass / D. Hand -- Versions and reversions: the new old story and contemporary Irish drama / C. Wallace -- Writing the interspace: Emily Lawless's geographical imagination / H. Hansson -- Richard Murphy: The Battle of Aughrim: history, poetry and form / B. Escarbelt -- Home from Europe: modernity and the reappropriation of the past in Bolger's early novels / M. Boss.

[PART 4: Exploring selves] Resisting disclosure in the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin / L. Collins -- The German connection: John Banville versus R.M. Rilke / E. D'hoker -- Happy and in exile?: Martin McDonagh's "Leenane Trilogy" / M. Lachman -- The poetry of Derek Mahon - content, intertext / E. Delattre -- Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological re-definition of Irishness / E. O'Brien.

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