This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory, making clear the key critical debates, themes and issues surrounding a wide variety of Irish poets, playwrights and novelists. It relates Irish literature to debates surrounding issues such as national identity, modernity and the Revival period, armed struggle, gender, sexuality and post colonialism.

One of the few books to survey the full range of critical responses surrounding the field of Twentiethcentury Irish literature
Covers a wide variety of modern Irish novelists, poets, and dramatists
Explores issues and debates such as national identity and nationalism, armed struggle, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism and the development of Irish studies

Autorentext
AARON KELLY is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Irish Literature and Criticism in the Revival.- Irish Literature and Criticism After Partition.- The Development of Irish Studies: Contesting the Revival.- Irish Studies Paradigms and Literature After Partition.- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Irish Literature.- Contemporary Literature in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.- Conclusion: Irish Studies Today.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Suggested Primary Reading.- Index.