Benedict Kiely

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1567922481

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The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely by Benedict Kiely Pdf

"The first meaning of 'the state of Ireland' is that it's a place where stories are still told, deliciously and by masters of the art, of whom Benedict Kiely is one, perhaps the foremost."--Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review This treasure chest of a book contains the complete short stories and novellas by Benedict Kiely's, one of the great storytellers of our time and any nation. This edition contains a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to the acclaimed novella, Proxopera.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Liberties Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909718722

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Benedict Kiely by Benedict Kiely Pdf

Selected Storiesgathers together some of the best examples of Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by Ben Forkner, founder ofThe Journal of the Short Story. From'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly' to 'A Letter to Peachtree', these stories sing in the unforgettable voice of an Irish master who inspired, and will continue to inspire, generations of readers and writers alike. These stories have a great deal taken from Ben's own experiences both abroad and at home in Ireland. Kiely captures various moments in Irish and American culture, many heavily influenced by his time as a lecturer in Georgia, writer-in-residence in Virginia, and as a reporter for theIrish Press.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957233671

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Proxopera by Benedict Kiely Pdf

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Methuen Pub Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0413776417

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Nothing Happens in Carmincross by Benedict Kiely Pdf

1973. Mervyn Kavanagh travels home to the small Irish town of Carmincross for the wedding of his favourite niece. As he nears the town, Mervyn is haunted by dark thoughts of bombs, rubber bullets, political murder and terrorism. Somewhere, it seems, the past and present are bound to collide.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0241955459

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The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories by Benedict Kiely Pdf

Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'. Collecting short stories that cover many generations and moods of Irish writing, this title answers the question. It features the stories that range from Lady Gregory's retelling of an ancient love story through to the prolific William Trevor.

Author : George O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1788550889

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In a Harbour Green by George O'Brien Pdf

La jaquette indique : "Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country's literary history. His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repository of lore and learning, and amply rewards not only the interest shown in it over many years by his popularity among the general public, but also that of Irish and international literary scholarship. Strangely, however, despite his renowned reputation and canonical status, Kiely remains a writer whose work has generated surprisingly little secondary literature, academic or otherwise. This charming collection of twelve essays by some of Ireland's foremost writers and esteemed international critics, in this, his centenary year, will breathe new life into Kiely's work and place him back where he belongs, at the heart of Irish literature."

Author : International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9042020385

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Back to the Present, Forward to the Past by International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference Pdf

The island of Ireland, north and south, has produced a great diversity of writing in both English and Irish for hundreds of years, often using the memories embodied in its competing views of history as a fruitful source of literary inspiration. Placing Irish literature in an international context, these two volumes explore the connection between Irish history and literature, in particular the Rebellion of 1798, in a more comprehensive, diverse and multi-faceted way than has often been the case in the past. The fifty-three authors bring their national and personal viewpoints as well as their critical judgements to bear on Irish literature in these stimulating articles. The contributions also deal with topics such as Gothic literature, ideology, and identity, as well as gender issues, connections with the other arts, regional Irish literature, in particular that of the city of Limerick, translations, the works of Joyce, and comparisons with the literature of other nations. The contributors are all members of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798 will be of interest to both literary scholars and professional historians, but also to the general student of Irish writing and Irish culture.

Author : Grace Eckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Northern Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015021938355

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Benedict Kiely by Grace Eckley Pdf

Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409065395

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Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan Pdf

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old. The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface. Yet Brendan Behan found something more positive than hate in Borstal: friendship, solidarity and healing flashes of kindness. Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, this is a superb and unforgettable piece of writing. Borstal Boy was adapted into a film in 2000.

Author : Robert Kiely
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674767039

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Reverse Tradition by Robert Kiely Pdf

Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old. In this engaging book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the late twentieth century. Placing the reader's response at the crux, he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical opacity in early and late postmodernism.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Irish fiction (in English)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038836909

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Land Without Stars by Benedict Kiely Pdf

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848407521

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The Best of Benedict Kiely by Benedict Kiely Pdf

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : George O’Brien
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781788550901

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In a Harbour Green by George O’Brien Pdf

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country’s literary history. His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repository of lore and learning, and amply rewards not only the interest shown in it over many years by his popularity among the general public, but also that of Irish and international literary scholarship. Strangely, however, despite his renowned reputation and canonical status, Kiely remains a writer whose work has generated surprisingly little secondary literature, academic or otherwise. This charming collection of twelve essays by some of Ireland’s foremost writers and esteemed international critics, in this, his centenary year, will breathe new life into Kiely’s work and place him back where he belongs, at the heart of Irish literature.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Orion
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : OCLC:63247266

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Proxopera by Benedict Kiely Pdf

"A condemnation of the interference by violent men in the lives of ordinary people" (Special Collections copy dust jacket).