An Historical Examination of Irish Literature and Authors: With Forty Short Biographies

Sommers, Dennis

ISBN 10: 0595283349 / ISBN 13: 9780595283347

Edité par iUniverse, 2003

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: An Historical Examination of Irish Literature and Authors: With Forty Short Biographies
• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0595283349
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780595283347
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Fine
• Signé: Inscribed by author
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction & Classics & Literature

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Synopsis

An Historical Examination of Irish Literature and Authors explores the extremely rich Irish literary tradition from the earliest times (over 6000 years ago) through the four Nobel Prize winners for Literature from the twentieth century. Topics discussed include the oral traditions and folktales of the Celtic/Gaelic peoples, gaelic literature, the fantastic illuminated manuscripts produced during the Christian monastic period, the literature of resistence against foreign oppression, the Irish literary revival at the turn of the twentieth century, and the great wealth of perhaps the most highly developed body of poetry on earth. The work includes forty biographical renderings discussing such authors as St. Patrick, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and others.