Irish Literature Since 1990

Irish Literature since 1990: "Diverse Voices" is a distinctive book that examines the diversity and energy of writing in a period marked by the unparalleled global prominence of Irish culture. This collection provides a wide-ranging survey of fiction, poetry and drama over the last two decades, considering both well-established figures and also emerging writers who have received relatively little critical attention before.Contributors explore the central developments within Irish culture and society that have transformed the writing and reading of identity, sexuality, history and gender. The book examines the impact of Mary Robinson's Presidency; growing cultural confidence 'back home'; legislative reform on sexual and moral issues; the uneven effects generated by the resurgence of the Irish economy (the 'Celtic Tiger' myth); Ireland's increasingly prominent role in Europe; and changing reputation. In its breadth and critical currency, this book will be of particular to academics and students working in the fields of literature, drama and cultural studies.

ISBN 0719075637   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780719075636 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Height (mm) 234 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 01 May 2009   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 820.99415   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

Pt. I		Contexts
1		'Changing history: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990' by Michael Parker		3
2		'Flying high? Culture, criticism, theory since 1990' by Scott Brewster		16
Pt. II		Drama
3		'Home places: Irish drama since 1990' by Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny		43
4		Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr by Maria Kurdi		59
5		The stuff of tragedy? Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen by Anthony Roche		79
6		New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage by Martine Pelletier		98
Pt. III		Poetry
7		Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 by Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh		121
8		Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Vona Groarke by Lucy Collins		142
9		'The places I go back to': familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry by Joanna Cowper		160
10		'Neither here nor there': new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) by Michael Parker		177
Pt. IV		Fiction and autobiography
11		'Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again': Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 by Liam Harte		201
12		Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel by Heidi Hansson		216
13		'Sacred spaces': writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and John Walsh's The Falling Angels) by Stephen Regan		232
14		Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road by Vivian Valvano Lynch		250
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"Brewster and Parker have assembled 17 thoughtful essays that present readers with diverse perspectives on contemporary Irish literature... Though clearly geared toward those immersed in the field of Irish literary studies, this volume would be an excellent complementary resource for an introductory Irish literature class." --"CHOICE"

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