We Irish : essays on Irish literature and society
1986, First Edition. New York : Knopf. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #474577
ISBN: 0394554515
Physical description; ix, 275 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Romantic Ireland -- Yeats : the question of symbolism -- Yeats, ancestral houses, and Anglo-Ireland -- On the winding stair -- European Joyce -- Pound/Joyce -- On the text of Ulysses -- Bakhtin and Finnegans wake -- Another complex fate -- Together -- Drums under the window -- De Valera's day -- Castle Catholic -- T.C.D. -- At swim -- Literature of trouble -- AE -- James Stephen -- Synge in his letters -- George Moore -- Maud Gonne -- O'Casey in his letters -- Frank O'Conner -- Sean O'Faolain -- Austin Clarke -- Bair's Beckett -- Year of the French -- Heaney's Sweeney. Subjects; Irish literature – 20th century – History and criticism. English literature – Irish authors – History and criticism. Literature and society – Ireland – History.
Price: €25.00