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050 00 $aPR8753$b.K53 1996
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100 1 $aKiberd, Declan.
245 10 $aInventing Ireland /$cDeclan Kiberd.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1996.
300 $axi, 719 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aConvergences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a Introduction -- A new England called Ireland? -- Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form -- Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory -- Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire -- Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism -- Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters --
505 0 $a Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod" -- Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIrish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Irish, in literature.
650 0 $aNationalism$zIreland$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aIreland$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aNationalism in literature.
830 0 $aConvergences (Cambridge, Mass.)