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Author:   Brian Cliff (Lecturer in Irish Studies, Trinity College Dublin) ,  Nicholas Grene (Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780199609888

ISBN 10:   0199609888
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Abbreviations Acknowledgments List of Illustrations R.F. Foster: Foreword Brian Cliff and Nicholas Grene: Introduction Part I: Edwardian Ireland 1: Terence Brown: The Edwardian Condition of Ireland 2: Christopher Morash: Synge's Typewriter: the Technological Sublime in Edwardian Ireland 3: Lucy McDiarmid: Stalking Yeats: the Celebrity System of Revivalist Dublin 4: Adrian Frazier: Synge and Edwardian Theatre 5: Nicola Gordon Bowe: Preserving the Relics of Heroic Time: Visualizing the Celtic Revival in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland 6: Harry White: Synge, Music and Edwardian Dublin 7: Julie Anne Stevens: Political Animals: Somerville and Ross and Percy French on Edwardian Ireland Part II Synge: Contexts and Comparisons 8: David Fitzpatrick: Synge and Modernity in The Aran Islands 9: Nicholas Allen: Synge, Reading, and Archipelago 10: P.J. Mathews: Travelling Home: J.M. Synge and the Politics of Place 11: Justin Carville: With his ""Mind-guided Camera "": J.M. Synge, J.J. Clarke and the Visual Politics of Edwardian Street Photography 12: Anne Markey: The price of kelp in Connemara: Synge, Pearse, and the idealisation of folk culture 13: Anne Fogarty: Ghostly Intertexts: James Joyce and the Legacy of Synge Bibliography"

Reviews

An important collection. * Mary M. Burke, Modern Language Review01/10/2012 *

An important collection. Mary M. Burke, Modern Language Review

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Brian Cliff is Lecturer in Irish Studies and English at Trinity College, Dublin where he is a director of the undergraduate degree programme in Irish Studies. He has published extensively on contemporary Irish literature and is the co-editor (with Eibhear Walshe) of Representing the Troubles: Texts and Images, 1970-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004). Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His books include The Politics of Irish Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Yeats's Poetic Codes (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has co-edited two volumes in the Irish Theatrical Diaspora series, Irish Theatre on Tour (Carysfort Press, 2005), with Chris Morash, and Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2007 (Carysfort Press, 2008), with Patrick Lonergan.

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