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David Pierce - Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing - 9780300109948 - KJE0002967
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Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing

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Description for Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60 b/w, 36 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 189 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1311. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear fine in dustjacket
In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland's two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of 'the harp and the crown'. Looking in particular at two decades taken from either half of the twentieth century, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300109948
SKU
KJE0002967
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Pierce
David Pierce is professor of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of James Joyce's Dublin and Yeats' Worlds, both published by Yale University Press.

Reviews for Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing
"'Pierce writes with the kind of magnetism one finds in the words and gestures of a great storyteller." Brendan Kenneally"

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