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

• Autore: Tillinghast Richard
• 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
• ISBN: 9780268093709; 0268093709
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973625003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II