Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish LiteratureMichael Allen, Angela Wilcox C. Smythe, 1989 - 193 pages Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature contains a selection of the papers given at the fifth triennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature held in Belfast in 1985, chaired by Professor John Cronin. It includes essays on Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, J. S. Le Fanu, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats, as well as papers on more general themes, such as the critical condition of Ulster, English political writers on Ireland, national character and national audience, autobiographical imagination and Irish literary autobiographies. |
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DOUBLES SHADOWS SEDANCHAIRS AND | 17 |
UNRELIABLE NARRATORS | 53 |
FATHERS VANQUISHED AND VICTORIOUS | 63 |
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Anglo-Irish appears Arthur Symons artistic audience autobiography becomes Brian Friel British Carmilla Catholic Christy Coleridge colours consciousness contemporary critical cultural darkness Dead death difference discourse Douglas Hurd Dublin Edvard Munch Emmet English Essays fact Fanu Fanu's father fiction Gabriel genre ghost Green Fool Gretta hair haunted Heaney Heaney's idea identity imaginative individual Ireland Irish literary Joyce Joyce's Kiberd language light literary autobiography literature London McCartney means Michael mind motif narrative narrator national character nationalist Naturalist night O'Casey O'Faolain painting pamphlet past Patrick Kavanagh Pegeen play poem poet poetry political portrait present Protestant reader reality reveal Robert Southey Romantic Sailing to Byzantium Seamus Deane Seamus Heaney seems self-portrait sense shadow social society Southey Southey's story structure symbol Symbolist Synge tion Tom Paulin tradition truth Ulster Unionism Unionist united Ireland unity vision W. B. Yeats words writing Yeats's Autobiographies