Myth and Reality in Irish Literature
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Myth and Reality in Irish Literature

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Myth and Reality in Irish Literature

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Myth and Reality in Irish Literature offers a rich collection of essays covering a wide spectrum of Irish literature from the early medieval saints and scholars to twentieth century writers such as Joyce and Beckett. Lady Gregory, Synge, Yeats, O'Casey and Myles na Gopaleen are among the poets, playwrights, critics, and authors treated in the book. The essays are written from both a personal and a scholarly perspective. Contributors to the volume include the Irish authors Denis Johnston, Thomas Kilroy, Kate O'Brien and Thomas Kinsella, and scholars David Greene, Denis Donoghue, Ann Saddlemyer and Shotaro Oshima.

Of interest to students of English Literature as well as observers of the Irish scene, this book is of particular value to students of Irish heritage and literature.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780889206281
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
  4. ANCIENT MYTH AND POETRY: A PANEL DISCUSSION
  5. SAINTS, SCHOLARS AND OTHERS, 500-800 A.D
  6. AUGUSTA GREGORY, IRISH NATIONALIST: "AFTER ALL, WHAT IS WANTED BUT A HAG AND A VOICE?"
  7. AE AS A LITERARY CRITIC
  8. NAKED TRUTH, FINE CLOTHES AND FINE PHRASES IN SYNGE'S PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
  9. HOPKINS, YEATS AND DUBLIN IN THE EIGHTIES
  10. YEATS: THE QUESTION OF SYMBOLISM
  11. THE POETRY OF CONFRONTATION: YEATS AND THE DIALOGUE POEM
  12. YEATS AS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POET
  13. AFTER "SILENCE," THE "SUPREME THEME": EIGHT LINES OF YEATS
  14. BETWEEN SHAPES AND SHADOWS
  15. TWO PLAYWRIGHTS: YEATS AND BECKETT
  16. MYTHOLOGIZED PRESENCES: MURPHY IN ITS TIME
  17. BECKETT, THE CAMERA, AND JACK MACGOWRAN
  18. THE ITALIAN SOURCES FOR EXILES: GIACOSA, PRAGA, ORIANI AND JOYCE
  19. JOYCE, EROS, AND "ARRAY! SURRECTION"
  20. IMAGINATION'S ABODE: THE SYMBOLISM OF HOUSE SETTINGS IN MODERN IRISH STAGE PLAYS
  21. RECURRENT PATTERNS IN O'CASEY'S DRAMA
  22. THE REALISM OF DENIS JOHNSTON
  23. MYLES NA GOPALEEN
  24. IMAGINATIVE PROSE BY THE IRISH, 1820-1970
  25. THE LITERARY MYTHS OF THE REVIVAL: A CASE FOR THEIR ABANDONMENT