Small World

Ireland, 1798-2018

Small World
Seamus Deane, Joe Cleary
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31 May 2021 UK
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9781108840866
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Seamus Deane is one of the most vital and versatile writers of our time. This book presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical and analytic, it addresses the political, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments and monuments of the island' s past and present. The style of Swift, the influence of Edmund Burke in the USA of the present day, the echoing debates about national character, aspects of Joyce' s and of Elizabeth Bowen' s relation to modernism, memories of Seamus Heaney, analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns' fiction constitute only a partial list of the themes included in this exhilarating book. These essays from one of Irish literature' s most renowned critics have individually had a piercing impact and are collectively amplified by being gathered together here. Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.
Seamus Deane is one of our greatest critics, sharp of mind and fearless in opinion. As this superb collection demonstrates, he has the large world of literature, and of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature in particular, secure within his frame of reference - there is no finer master of the art of close reading. Nothing small here, only the broadest view and the deepest insight. Ave magister. John Banville A new book by Seamus Deane is cause for celebration. Over several decades Deane has revolutionized the study of Irish literature and culture, and his critical innovations have also helped to shape the fields of postcolonial and transnational studies. Combining theoretical brio with a scrupulous historical sense and dazzling breadth of learning, his distinctive voice-suave, trenchant, sinuous, epigrammatic, wry-makes his pioneering insights unforgettable. Small World brings together some of Deane' s most influential essays and adds exciting new work, especially on Irish women writers. Maud Ellmann , University of Chicago
Seamus Deane is a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals; Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and the Nation. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in 3 volumes, and has written four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Formerly of University College, Dublin, he is Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
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ISBN-13: 9781108840866
Published: 31 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 350

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