Irish Renaissance

By Richard Fallis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815621868
• ISBN13: 9780815621867
• Release Date: October 1977
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0" x 1.2"

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From The Back Cover What was the Irish Renaissance? During the period roughly between 1885 and 1940 a considerable number of Anglo-Irish writers produced works of great importance in many leterary genres. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, Joyce, Frank O'Connor, and Sean O'Faolain were some of the writers who made their little island the home of a major literature. This book gives an overview of the writers, their works, and the literary movement in which they participated. Yeats appears in almost every one of the chapters, for he more than anyone else created and sustained the Irish Renaissance. In Part 1, Professor Fallis describes the gradual development of the movement in the last two decades of the 19th century and devotes two chapters to Irish history and literature in Gaelic and English. The second part sketches the nationalist agitation which finally culminated in a war with England and a tragic civil war, the Abbey Theatre and its playwrights, and the development of poetry and fiction. Part 3 describes the social and political background to Irish writing since 1923, the slow decay of Irish drama, the remarkable achievements in fiction, poetry, and a survey of Irish writing since 1940. The author has drawn together a fascinating compendium of information on a passionate period of world literature. The writing is precise and straight-forward, whether discussing Cuchulain or Leopold Bloom. "A comprehensive, coherent, and readable survey of Irish literature from 1885 to the present...A necessity for libraries from high school on up" --Choice "This is a model literary history; clear, complete, accurate, impartial, but informed with a sure taste." --Library Journal "Fallis' excellent book is a comprehensive survey of the Irish Renaissance, intended not so much to offer new critical insights into the period, as to survey traditional critical views. ...The book succeeds as an in-depth course outline to be used conjointly with texts of the original works, to fill in the gaps between those texts, and to provide an historical perspective on the period." --James Joyce Quarterly