Ageing In Irish Writing

Author : Heather Ingman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319964300

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Ageing in Irish Writing by Heather Ingman Pdf

Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study examines the portrayal of ageing in fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Deirdre Madden, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, John Banville, John McGahern, Norah Hoult and Edna O’Brien, among others. The chapters follow a logical thematic progression from efforts to hold back time, to resisting the decline narrative of ageing, solitary ageing versus ageing in the community, and dementia and the world of the bedbound and dying. One chapter analyses the changing portrayal of older people in the Irish short story. Recent demographic shifts in Ireland have focused attention on an increasing ageing population, making this study a timely intervention in the field of literary gerontology.

Author : Michaela Schrage-Früh,Tony Tracy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588309

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Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture by Michaela Schrage-Früh,Tony Tracy Pdf

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression.

Author : Renée Fox,Mike Cronin,Brian Ó Conchubhair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000333152

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Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies by Renée Fox,Mike Cronin,Brian Ó Conchubhair Pdf

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The chapters included address not only changes in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland but also changes in disciplinary approaches to Irish Studies that the last decade of political, economic, and cultural unrest have stimulated. Since 2008, Irish Studies has been directly and indirectly influenced by the crash and its reverberations through the economy, political landscape, and social framework of Ireland and beyond. Approaching Irish pasts, presents, and futures through interdisciplinary and theoretically capacious lenses, the chapters in this volume reflect the myriad ways Irish Studies has responded to the economic precarity in the Republic, renewed instability in the North, the complex European politics of Brexit, global climate and pandemic crises, and the intense social change in Ireland catalyzed by all of these. Just as Irish society has had to dramatically reconceive its economic and global identity after the crash, Irish Studies has had to shift its theoretical modes and its objects of analysis in order to keep pace with these changes and upheavals. This book captures the dynamic ways the discipline has evolved since 2008, exploring how the age of austerity and renewal has transformed both Ireland and scholarly approaches to understanding Ireland. It will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature, economics, and political science. Chapter 3, 5 and 15 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015070192060

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Irish Writings from the Age of Swift: Adventure at Sienna, by Charles Ford by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015070192078

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Irish Writings from the Age of Swift by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tom Herron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105547

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Irish Writing London: Volume 2 by Tom Herron Pdf

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered. Written by an internal array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015070192052

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Irish Writings from the Age of Swift: Different styles of poetry, verses by W. Dillon,T.Parnell, J. Swift, ed. by R. Mahoney by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1859182585

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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century by David Pierce Pdf

"Arranged chronologically by decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s, each decade is divided into two different types of writing: critical/documentary and imaginative writing, and is accompanied by a headnote which situates it thematically and chronologically. The Reader is also structured for thematic study by listing all the pieces included under a series of topic headings. The wide range of material encompasses writings of well-known figures in the Irish canon and neglected writers alike. This will appeal to the general reader, but also makes Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century ideal as a core text, providing a unique focus for detailed study in a single volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015030089323

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paige Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881056

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Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing by Paige Reynolds Pdf

Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world. Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse.

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000693954

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Maurice R. O'Connell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200973

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Irish Politics and Social Conflict in the Age of the American Revolution by Maurice R. O'Connell Pdf

In the midst of great expansion and economic growth in the eighteenth century, Ireland was deeply divided along racial, religious, and economic lines. More than two thirds of the population were Catholic, but nearly all the landowners were Anglican. The minority also comprised practically the entire body of lawyers, officers in the army and navy, and holders of political positions. At the same time, a growing middle class of merchants and manufacturers sought to reform Parliament to gain a real share in the political power monopolized by the aristocracy and landed gentry. Irish Politics and Social Conflict in the Age of the American Revolution remains one of the few in-depth studies of the effects of the Revolution on Ireland. Focusing on nine important years of Irish history, 1775 to 1783, from the outbreak of war in colonial America to the year following its conclusion, the book details the social and political conditions of a period crucial to the development of Irish nationalism. Drawing extensively on the Dublin press of the time, Maurice R. O'Connell chronicles such important developments as the economic depression in Britain and the Irish movement for free trade, the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, the rise of the Volunteers, the formation of the Patriot group in the Irish Parliament, and the Revolution of 1782.

Author : Civil service commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590235668

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Tables showing the limits of age and subjects of examination prescribed for the various departments of th Home civil service [&c. afterw.] Table of rules and regulations [afterw.] Abstract of rules and regulations [afterw.] Civil service examinations: subjects ... and limits of age by Civil service commission Pdf

Author : Alexander G. Gonzalez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567507737

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Modern Irish Writers by Alexander G. Gonzalez Pdf

While the Irish Literary Revival began around 1885 and ended somewhere between 1925 and 1940, the Irish Renaissance has continued to the present day and shows no sign of abating. The period has produced some of the most important and influential figures in Irish literature, some of whom are counted among the world's greatest authors. The Revival saw a reestablishment of Ireland's literary connections with its Celtic heritage, and writers such as William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory drew heavily on the myths and legends of the past. James Joyce boldly reshaped the novel and wrote short fiction of enduring value. Contemporary Irish writers continue to be leading figures and include such authors as Brian Frigl, Seamus Heaney, and Eavan Boland. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers, including Samuel Beckett, William Trevor, Patrick Kavanagh, Medbh McGuckian, Sean O'Casey, J. M. Synge, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Entries are written by expert contributors and reflect a broad range of perspectives. Each entry contains a brief biography that summarizes the author's career, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. An introductory essay reviews the large and growing body of scholarship on modern Irish literature, while an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066333372

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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf