| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 407 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Irish studies |
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Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 381-394. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. The coming of the heroes: versions of saga and heroic romance: The brightest candle of the Gael: cultural interpretations of the Cuchulain cycle -- The property of discourse: popular translations and redactions of the Cuchulain cycle - P.W. Joyce, Lady Gregory, Eleanor Hull -- Transforming down: fictional adaptations of the Cuchulain cycle -Standish James O'Grady, James Stephens -- 2. The mirror and the mask: further strategies of self-escape: The self-ancestral: the mystical strategy -AE -- The path of the chameleon: the symbolist strategy -W.B. Yeats -- Certain set apart: the romantic strategy -John Millington Synge -- 3. The infinite pain of self-realization: the realist reply: Hail and farewell: George Moore and revival Ireland -Gerald O'Donovan -- Waking the dead: the young James Joyce, Dublin, and Irish revival -- Betraying presences: fictional tidings from Cork, Galway, and the Midlands -Daniel Corkery, Brinsley MacNamara, Edward E. Lysaght -- 4. The sorrowful legend of Ireland: folktale and the escape from environment: Visions and vanities: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and folklore -- The death of Anshgayliacht: the rise of folklore studies -Douglas Hyde, William Larminie -- The mount of transfiguration: the writer as fabulist -W.B. Yeats, James Stephens -- The kingdom of fantasy: the writer as fabulist II -George Moore, Padraic Colum, Darrell Figgis, Eimar O'Duffy, Lord Dusany -- 5. The indifferent cairn: the peasant voice in revival prose: Hidden Ireland: real and imagined peasantries -Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly -- The island man: the rise (and fall) of the peasant author -Tomás Ó Crohan. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Cuchulain (Legendary character) in literature.
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Mythology, Celtic, in literature.
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Folklore in literature.
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Ireland -- In literature.
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Heroes in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English Irish writers, 1800-1900 - Critical studies |
| ISBN |
0815623747 alkaline paper |
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