Irish poetry : and the contruction of modern identity, Ireland between fantasy and history /
By: Smith, Stan [author.].
Publisher: Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2005Description: 238 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0716533308; 9780716533306:; 9780716533306.Subject(s): Irish poetry | English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Poetry | English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Fantasy poetryDDC classification: 821.9415Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 821.9415 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0089736 |
Historians and magicians : Ireland between fantasy and history -- Making it up : W.B. Yeats -- Living to tell the tale : Fallon, Clarke, MacGreevy, Coffey -- The course of illegible things : Denis Devlin -- Plastering over the cracks : Louis MacNeice -- Periphery of incident : John Montague -- Ghost writing : Seamus Heaney -- The distance between : Heaney again -- Mind changes : poets of the postmodern -- The twilight of the cities : Derek Mahon's dark cinema -- Paul Muldoon's leavings -- Cruising to the podes : Ciaran Carson's virtual realities.
An analysis of literary Modernism in Irish poetry. The postmodernist poetry of the last half-century has returned to some of the key issues raised but not resolved by the first generation of Irish Modernists, to imagine a new and contemporary Ireland, open to the cross-currents of a wider, European and international semiotics.