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This book is a collection of essays by Terence Brown, a prominent Irish literary and cultural historian. The essays cover a variety of topics related to Irish culture and literature, and many of them explore the ways in which Irish culture has been influenced by its relationship with the rest of the world. The book is particularly relevant to Irish Studies, which is currently dominated by a post-colonial model of cultural and literary history.
One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and he has been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irish studies. These essays reflect the key themes of Brown's distinguished career, most crucially his critical engagement with the post-colonial model of Irish cultural and literary history currently dominant in Irish Studies. With essays on major figures such as Yeats, MacNeice, Joyce and Beckett, as well as contemporary authors including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Brian Friel, this volume is a major contribution to scholarship, directing scholars and students to new approaches to twentieth-century Irish cultural and literary history.
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