[PDF] Irelands Literary Renaissance eBook

Author : Patricia Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139430378

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The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events of enduring importance: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English linguistic expansion. The Elizabethan colonisers in Ireland included some of the leading poets and translators of the day. In Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland, Patricia Palmer uses their writings, as well as material from the State Papers, to explore the part that language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity. Palmer shows how manoeuvres of linguistic expansion rehearsed in Ireland shaped Englishmen's encounters with the languages of the New World, and frames that analysis within a comparison between English linguistic colonisation and Spanish practice in the New World. This is an ambitious, comparative study, which will interest literary and political historians.

Author : John McCourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521886627

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This collection charts the vital contextual backgrounds to James Joyce's life and writing. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.

Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1993-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815623748

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This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.

Author : Ernest A. Boyd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2017-11-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780331916737

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Excerpt from Ireland's Literary Renaissance With few exceptions, the subjects of the following chapters have all placed me under obligations by the kind manner in which they responded to my inquiries concerning matters which absence from Ireland pre vented me from verifying at first hand. For the same reason, I owe many thanks to my friend, Miss Tay lour, of Dublin, who so patiently elucidated doubtful points of bibliographical interest, and to Mr. John Quinn, of New York, who generously gave me access to his rare collection of Irish books, at a time when no other sources of reference were at my disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.