A pocket history of Irish literature /
By: Jeffares, A. Norman (Alexander Norman).
Publisher: Dublin : O̓Brien Press, 1997Description: 160 p. : ports. ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0862785022; 9780862785024:.Subject(s): Abbey Theatre | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- Irish authors | Acting -- Ireland | English drama -- Irish authors | Irish drama | Ireland -- Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 820.9Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 820.9 JEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0044242 |
The eighteenth century: rationalism, anti-colonialism, philosophy and comedy -- Nineteenth century fiction before the famine -- Romantic poetry, nationalism and the gothic -- Social comedy with a message: Wilde and Shaw -- Seriousness and humour in the novel -- The literary revival -- The Abbey in the 1920s and 1930s -- Joyce and fiction: 1920s to 1940s -- Poetry after Yeats -- Samuel Beckett and modern drama -- Novelists from the 1950s on -- Contemporary poetry.
A. Norman Jeffares begins his lively and accessible overview of Irish literature with Swift who was the first great Irish writer in English. He then takes the reader on a literary journey through literature, poetry and drama to the present day.