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Author: Seán Hewitt (Government of Ireland Fellow, School of English, University College Cork)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9780198862093
ISBN 10: 0198862091
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 January 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
immensely impressive...Synge is explored here with insight and originality. [...] An authoritative new reading of the full corpus of Synge's work, which is also a kind of intellectual biography. * Roy Foster, Honorary Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford * Sean Hewitt's J.M Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism gives a rich account of the three areas of its title. Nature is the bedrock of all Synge writes, modernism the shock of the new that comes from his development as a playwright; and politics a force that emerges more fully from pressures exerted on his writing by contemporary events in Ireland. But the real originality and power of the study are in the confluence of the three, the way Hewitt manages to hold these diverse topics in the one critical frame. Synge is far from dead yet. * Anthony Roche, Irish Times *
immensely impressive...Synge is explored here with insight and originality. [...] An authoritative new reading of the full corpus of Synge's work, which is also a kind of intellectual biography. * Roy Foster, Honorary Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford * Seán Hewitt's J.M Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism gives a rich account of the three areas of its title. Nature is the bedrock of all Synge writes, modernism the shock of the new that comes from his development as a playwright; and politics a force that emerges more fully from pressures exerted on his writing by contemporary events in Ireland. But the real originality and power of the study are in the confluence of the three, the way Hewitt manages to hold these diverse topics in the one critical frame. Synge is far from dead yet. * Anthony Roche, Irish Times *
immensely impressive...Synge is explored here with insight and originality. [...] An authoritative new reading of the full corpus of Synge's work, which is also a kind of intellectual biography. * Roy Foster, Honorary Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford * Se'an Hewitt's J.M Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism gives a rich account of the three areas of its title. Nature is the bedrock of all Synge writes, modernism the shock of the new that comes from his development as a playwright; and politics a force that emerges more fully from pressures exerted on his writing by contemporary events in Ireland. But the real originality and power of the study are in the confluence of the three, the way Hewitt manages to hold these diverse topics in the one critical frame. Synge is far from dead yet. * Anthony Roche, Irish Times *
Author Information
Seán Hewitt is a Government of Ireland Fellow at the School of English, University College Cork. Before joining the School, he was a Leverhulme Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He is a book critic for The Irish Times, and his debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, is published by Jonathan Cape (2020). His current research project explores the influence of natural history and popular science on British and Irish writings, 1870-1930, and won the Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence from the Irish Research Council in 2019.
