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Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions

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Description for Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.

In recent decades, a large and well-regarded volume of creative work has emerged from the West of Ireland, written by residents of the region, by those raised in West of Ireland families outside the region, and by seasonal and occasional visitors. The fiction of John McGahern, the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, Tim Robinson's maps and place studies, the work of Richard Murphy, and the poetry of Mary O'Malley, Moya Cannon, and Sean Lysaght are known and admired worldwide. Yet, for all that has been made of the Western themes and settings in the work of such writers, and ... Read more

Wall describes, analyzes, and contextualizes their work to show the fundamental ways in which the region has influenced and shaped it. Certain themes and commonplaces recur obsessively: the bilingual nature of Western life and language, landscape, gender, poverty, the individual's relationship to nature and place, connections between Christianity and paganism, the overpowering weight of history, and each author's complex relationship to the Irish Literary Revival of Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge. Although well-developed theoretical approaches to reading Western American literature have been practiced for years, no such approaches exist in Irish discourse. Wall draws on extensive research on the literature of the American West for a comparative study that places the Irish and American Wests side by side. Underlined by an engagement with the role ecology plays in the study of literature, Writing the Irish West highlights uncanny connections between the works of West-of-Ireland writers and their Western American counterparts.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268044237
SKU
9780268044237
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About Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall is Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Reviews for Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions
"Eamonn Wall’s daring book explores the cultural ecology of Ireland and America through the creation of an idea of the west that is at once gesture, criticism, and a sensory history of passing time. If true places are never on maps, Wall’s critical cartography points the reader to new departures in the reading of Tim Robinson, Richard Murphy, and many ... Read more

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