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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780554703321

Titolo

What rough beasts? : Irish and Scottish studies in the new millennium / / editor, Shane Alcobia-Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2008

ISBN

1-282-02993-2

9786612029936

1-4438-0221-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 217 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

Alcobia-MurphyShane

Disciplina

941.1007

Soggetti

Irish literature - History and criticism

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

Scotland Civilization Congresses

Ireland Civilization Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected conference papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKES IN THE VISUAL ARTS; "THE SAME SEED THAT CARRIED ME TILL ITSAW ITSELF AS FRUIT"; SEAMUS HEANEY AND OSIP MANDELSTAM; DEREK MAHON'S POETRY OF COMMUNITY; 'KEEPING THAT WOUND GREEN'; PUBLIC SKAITH OR WELL FEIGNED SORROW?; "AMONG THE MANY WONDERS OF WORLD"; DOMESTICITY AND DIASPORA; "THE HISTORIES OF YEER BLOOD"; CELTIC IDENTITY, IRISH IMMIGRATION AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS TENSIONS IN SCOTTISH INTERWAR LITERATURE AND SOCIETY; KEEPING IT REEL; GHOST WRITER; JOYCEAN FORM IN JAMES KELMAN'S EARLY FI; "A DAY ON WHICH NORTHING OF IMPORTANCE HAPPENED"LOOKING FOR LITERARY SCOTLAND; CONTRIBUTORs

Sommario/riassunto

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research papers which investigate key literary and historical issues in Irish and Scottish Studies, providing a view onto the range of current research interests both within and across the two disciplines. From a selection of papers presented at an AHRC-sponsored conference held at the University of Aberdeen, the volume showcases original material



by both emergent and established scholars.