Irish pastoral : nostalgia and twentieth-century Irish literature / Oona Frawley.

• Irish pastoral : the nostalgic mode -- Nature in Irish literature before 1600 : an overview -- The roots of the new Irish pastoral -- Yeats : mapping the new Ireland of the mind -- Synge, The Aran Islands, and the move toward realism -- Joyce and Beckett : refuting stereotypes -- Contemporary versions of Irish pastoral : Heaney and Boland -- Pastoral speculations.

• Spanning anonymous eighth century poems to the writing of contemporary authors like Seamus Heaney and Eaven Boland, Irish literature has consistently engaged with nature, place and landscape. Irish Pastoral offers an exemplary probe into this Irish literary tradition that has been much remarked upon but little analysed. While rooted in a thorough knowledge of the classical pastoral tradition as shaped by Theocritus and Virgil, the Irish pastoral mode displays a heightened sense of the nostalgia usually associated with pastoral. From approximately the thirteenth century on, Irish literature displays a preoccupation with nature as the site for nostalgia; Irish Pastoral argues that this preoccupation becomes increasingly linked with the fact of the British colonial presence in Ireland. After offering an overview of the representation of nature in Irish literature prior to 1600, this book examines the collision between Irish and English pastoral forms during Spenser's time in Ireland, and then seeks to ascertain the ways in which these two literary modes subsequently intertwine as a seeming result of the consolidation of English colonial dominance of Ireland. This merging and blending of English and Irish pastoral forms is best witnessed in the period of the Irish Revival and in the literature that follows; Irish Pastoral then examines some of the major figures of twentieth century Irish literature for the inheritance of these themes. -- Publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Hembygden i litteraturen  (sao)

Naturen i litteraturen  (sao)

Nostalgi i litteraturen  (sao)

Irländsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Country life in literature.  (LCSH)

Nostalgia in literature.  (LCSH)

Nature in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Pastoral literature, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Irish literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Vie rurale dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Nostalgie dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Nature dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- Auteurs irlandais -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature pastorale anglaise  -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature irlandaise  -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Country life in literature.  (fast)

English literature.  (fast)

Intellectual life.  (fast)

Irish literature.  (fast)

Literature.  (fast)

Nature in literature.  (fast)

Nostalgia in literature.  (fast)

Pastoral literature, English.  (fast)

English literature  -- Irish authors. (fast)

Nature in literature  (LCSH)

Home in literature ; Local history in literature ; Country life in literature  (LCSH)

Ireland  -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Ireland  -- In literature. (LCSH)

Irlande  -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Irlande  -- Dans la littérature. (Vedettes-matière)

Ireland.  (fast)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PR8722.P39 (LCC)

820.9321734 (DDC)