Foster, John Wilson

Between shadows : modern Irish writing and culture / John Wilson Foster ; foreword by Edna Longley. - Dublin ; Irish Academic Press, 2009. - 257p. Hbk

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Emblems of diversity: Yeats and the Great War -- The islandman: the teller and the tale -- Against nature? Science and Oscar Wilde -- The Weir: inheriting the wind -- Stretching the imagination: some Trevor novels -- 'All the long traditions': loyalty in Barry and Ishiguro -- Virtual Irelands: Martin McDonagh -- Revisitations: criticism and Benedict Kiely -- The autocartography of Tim Robinson -- Strangford Lough and its writers -- Blackbird -- Guests of the nation -- Getting the north: Yeats and northern nationalism -- Was there Ulster literary life before Heaney? -- Bloomsday's Joyce -- Between two shadows: Kettle, Lynd and the Great War.

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English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism
Ireland - In literature
Ireland - Intellectual life - 20th century

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