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		"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it." - Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)

	Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation
	by Declan Kiberd, Edward W. Said (Editor)

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Format: Hardcover, 736 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674463633

Release Date: Jan 3, 1996

In Brief
In the author's view, "the generating energy in Irish culture in recent centuries has been British imperialism (at first military, political and economic, but ultimately cultural) and the protean native resistance to that process. He is concerned with Ireland's literature as that of a post-colonial culture." (N Y Times Book Rev) Index.

From The Publisher
Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centuries of colonialism. The result is a major literary history of modern Ireland, combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival. Inventing Ireland restores to the Irish past a sense of openness that it once had and that has since been obscured by narrow-gauge nationalists and their polemical revisionist critics. In closing, Kiberd outlines an agenda for Irish studies in the next century and detects the signs of a second renaissance in the work of a new generation of authors and playwrights, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers.

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The Reader's Catalog
How, after centuries of colonialism, Irish and English writers contributed to the invention of an Irish cultural identity; examines language, sports, clothing, politics, and philosophy along with personalities and texts. "[Kibard] resembles that stereotype of the Irish writer...impudent, eloquent, full of jokes and irreverence by turns sardonic and conciliatory, blithely subversive but, without warning, turning to display a wide and serious reading, generosity of spirit, a fierce an authentic concern for social and political justice--Thomas Flanagan, NY Times Book Review

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	A New England Called Ireland?	9
2	Oscar Wilde - The Artist as Irishman	33
3	John Bull's Other Islander - Bernard Shaw	51
4	Tragedies of Manners - Somerville and Ross	69
5	Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys	83
6	Childhood and Ireland	101
7	The National Longing for Form	115
8	Deanglicization	136
9	Nationality or Cosmopolitanism?	155
10	J. M. Synge - Remembering the Future	166
11	Uprising	196
12	The Plebeians Revise the Uprising	218
13	The Great War and Irish Memory	239
14	Ireland and the End of Empire	251
15	Writing Ireland, Reading England	268
16	Inventing Irelands	286
17	Revolt Into Style - Yeatsian Poetics	305
18	The Last Aisling - A Vision	316
19	James Joyce and Mythic Realism	327
20	Elizabeth Bowen - The Dandy in Revolt	364
21	Fathers and Sons	380
22	Mothers and Daughters	395
23	Protholics and Cathestants	418
24	Saint Joan - Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic	428
25	The Winding Stair	438
26	Religious Writing: Beckett and Others	454
27	The Periphery and the Centre	481
28	Flann O'Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth	497
29	The Empire Writes Back - Brendan Behan	513
30	Beckett's Texts of Laughter and Forgetting	530
31	Post-Colonial Ireland - "A Quaking Sod"	551
32	Under Pressure - The Writer and Society 1960-90	580
33	Friel Translating	614
34	Translating Tradition	624
35	Imagining Irish Studies	641
	Notes	655
	Index	701

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Keywords
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