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Irene de Angelis - The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry - 9780230248953 - V9780230248953
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The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry

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Description for The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry Hardcover. The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the post-Yeatsian legacy of the Irish-Japanese connection through an analysis of work by 12 poets from the early 1960s to 2006. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230248953
SKU
V9780230248953
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99-15

About Irene de Angelis
Irene De Angelis is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy. With Joseph Woods she is co-editor of Our Shared Japan: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Poetry (2007), and has published numerous articles on contemporary Irish poetry.

Reviews for The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry
"This is a truly enlightening critical study, which puts flesh on an affiliation between islands at the opposite ends of the immense Eurasian landmass, and the commerce between their poetic traditions... it is various, and engaging, and culturally sophisticated, and scholarship which operates at the level of the word as well as at the level of culture." Australasian Journal of ... Read more

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