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Selected Essays Of Sean O Faolain
Brad Kent
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Description for Selected Essays Of Sean O Faolain
Paperback. The first collection of essays by one of the most important public intellectuals in Ireland. Num Pages: 540 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland's leading social and political critic in the period following the country's independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays by O'Faolain on a wide range of subjects - from canonical writers to architecture, from ... Read more
Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland's leading social and political critic in the period following the country's independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays by O'Faolain on a wide range of subjects - from canonical writers to architecture, from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
540
Condition
New
Number of Pages
540
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773547773
SKU
V9780773547773
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
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About Brad Kent
Brad Kent is associate professor of British and Irish literatures at Universite Laval.
Reviews for Selected Essays Of Sean O Faolain
"Urgent, lucid, and sophisticated, O'Faolain in his essays takes Ireland as a test-case of the modern world. The astute introduction and editing by Brad Kent show just how much these analyses have to say to us now. A rich and satisfying volume." - Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame " In the current ' Mart of Ideas' (to borrow the ... Read more