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Autore |
Tillinghast Richard |
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Titolo |
Finding Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / / Richard Tillinghast |
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Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Literary landmarks - Ireland |
Authors, Irish - Homes and haunts - Ireland |
English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism |
Ireland Intellectual life |
Ireland Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Finding Ireland -- Letter from Galway, 1990 -- Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen -- Who were the Anglo-Irish? -- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross -- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland -- The asymmetrical George Moore -- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child -- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were" -- Listening to Irish traditional music -- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter -- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime -- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice" -- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger -- The future of Irish poetry? -- Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family -- W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being -- Looking for Yeats in Yeats country -- From Venice to Tipperary. |
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Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history. |
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