Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
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Description
The Irish Renaissance began around 1885 and arguably has continued to the present day, with no apparent sign of coming to an end. The period has produced some of the richest literature in Irish history, and authors such as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Seamus Heaney are among the leading writers of the twentieth century. This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
Product Details
Price
$99.60
Publisher
Greenwood
Publish Date
August 26, 1997
Pages
480
Dimensions
6.46 X 9.5 X 1.42 inches | 1.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780313295577
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About the Author
ALEXANDER G. GONZALEZ is Profesor of English, specializing in Irish literature at Cortland College of the State University of New York. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at The Ohio State University. During the summer of 1991 he served as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at The Pennsylvania State University, where he taught a course on contemporary Irish women poets. He has published several books, including Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge (Greenwood, 1996), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in Short Fiction, Irish University Review, Colby Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, and Eire-Ireland.
Reviews
"Coverage is quite full, ranging from authors such as Joyce and Yeats, whose careers began in the nineteenth century and ended in the early to mid-twentieth century, to writers such as Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan, who were born in the 1950s. Modern Irish Writers is certain to serve students and scholars equally well. Students will appreciate the solid overview and comprehensiveness of a general basic textbook, and scholars will appreciate the information on less-familiar writers. Recommended for academic and large public libaries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril."- Rettig on Reference
?The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril.?- Rettig on Reference
?Coverage is quite full, ranging from authors such as Joyce and Yeats, whose careers began in the nineteenth century and ended in the early to mid-twentieth century, to writers such as Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan, who were born in the 1950s. Modern Irish Writers is certain to serve students and scholars equally well. Students will appreciate the solid overview and comprehensiveness of a general basic textbook, and scholars will appreciate the information on less-familiar writers. Recommended for academic and large public libaries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril."- Rettig on Reference
?The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril.?- Rettig on Reference
?Coverage is quite full, ranging from authors such as Joyce and Yeats, whose careers began in the nineteenth century and ended in the early to mid-twentieth century, to writers such as Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan, who were born in the 1950s. Modern Irish Writers is certain to serve students and scholars equally well. Students will appreciate the solid overview and comprehensiveness of a general basic textbook, and scholars will appreciate the information on less-familiar writers. Recommended for academic and large public libaries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
