Description
Book SynopsisOn the construction of Irish national identity, drawing on Irish history from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Trade Review'A valuable and groundbreaking book' -- Irish Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Decolonisation and Criticism
1. The Modes of Decolonisation
Nationalism and Decolonisation
Liberal and Radical Decolonisation
Decolonisation and Poststructuralism
Decolonisation in Ireland
2. Culture, Criticism and Decolonisation
Criticism and Crisis
The Institution of Criticism
Decolonisation and Criticism
3. Critical Encounters
Neo-Classicism and Celticism
Anglo-Ireland Under Pressure
Irish Politics, English Culture
Challenges to Cultural Nationalism
Part 2: Literary Criticism in Ireland 1948-58
4. Criticism in the Thin Society
5. The Periodical
The Moment of Kavanagh's Weekly
Variations on the Bell
The Professionals
Affiliated Periodicals
6. The Scope of Literary Criticism
A Note on Censorship –The University – Anthologies
7. The Book
The Life and Culture in Ireland Series –Truth and Method –An Irish Tradition?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
