Farming in modern Irish literature

Farming in modern Irish literature

by Grene, Nicholas

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"This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms, poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back. The first five chapters examine some of the key themes: the impact of inheritance on family…

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  • Full title :Farming in modern Irish literature / Nicholas Grene.

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"This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms, poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back. The first five chapters examine some of the key themes: the impact of inheritance on family, in the patriarchal system where there could only be one male heir; the struggles for survival in the poorest regions of the West of Ireland; the uses of childhood farming memories whether idyllic or traumatic; the representation of communities, challenging the homogeneous idealizing images of the Literary Revival; the impact of modernization on successive generations into the twenty-first century. The final three chapters are devoted to three major writers in whose work farming is central: Patrick Kavanagh, the small farmer who had to find an individual voice to express his own unique experience; John McGahern in whose fiction the life of the farm is always posited as alternative to an arid and rootless urban milieu; Seamus Heaney who re-imagined his farming childhood in so many different modes throughout his career"--Publisher's description.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2021
  • Edition:First edition

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  • Description:1 online resource : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780191893353, 0191893358, 9780192605528, 0192605526
  • oclc:on1243261569
  • LC Classification:PR8722
  • Dewey Decimal:820.936

Subjects

Agriculture dans la littérature Agriculture in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- Irish authors Littérature anglaise -- Auteurs irlanda… Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri…

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Grene, Nicholas

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