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Finding Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / / Richard Tillinghast



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Autore: Tillinghast Richard Visualizza persona
Titolo: Finding Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture / / Richard Tillinghast Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/9415
Soggetto topico: Literary landmarks - Ireland
Authors, Irish - Homes and haunts - Ireland
English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Ireland Intellectual life
Ireland Description and travel
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.
Titolo autorizzato: Finding Ireland  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-268-09370-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814525003321
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