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In this book, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the controversies surrounding the Irish state after 1922. With its interdisciplinary perspective on artists and contexts, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish culture of the 1920s and 30s and of modernism's histories.

Table of Contents
1. Civil wars; 2. Irregular Joyce; 3. The plough and the cabaret; 4. W. B. Yeats and A Vision after empire; 5. Wherever motley is worn; 6. Beckett's time; 7. Jack Yeats and the liquid world; 8. Ireland today; 9. In the wake; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 7/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521489959, 978-0521489959
      ISBN10: 0521489954

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this book, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the controversies surrounding the Irish state after 1922. With its interdisciplinary perspective on artists and contexts, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish culture of the 1920s and 30s and of modernism's histories.

      Table of Contents
      1. Civil wars; 2. Irregular Joyce; 3. The plough and the cabaret; 4. W. B. Yeats and A Vision after empire; 5. Wherever motley is worn; 6. Beckett's time; 7. Jack Yeats and the liquid world; 8. Ireland today; 9. In the wake; Bibliography.

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