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Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98
Patrick Grant
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Hardcover. During the Northern Irish Troubles of the late 1960s, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages and participates in this war of words. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages and participates in this war of words. It draws on a range of contemporary authors and on a variety of printed sources, including journalists' reports, political speeches, interviews, memoirs, pamphlets and autobiography. The book places the Northern Ireland conflict within a broad European debate about the legitimate use of force, and provides an original analysis of the inter-relationship between language, literature and violence. ... Read more
During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages and participates in this war of words. It draws on a range of contemporary authors and on a variety of printed sources, including journalists' reports, political speeches, interviews, memoirs, pamphlets and autobiography. The book places the Northern Ireland conflict within a broad European debate about the legitimate use of force, and provides an original analysis of the inter-relationship between language, literature and violence. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333794128
SKU
V9780333794128
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About Patrick Grant
PATRICK GRANT is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of several books, including Breaking Enmities: Religion and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967-97, and of a trilogy on literature and the idea of the person, comprising Personalism and the Politics of Culture, Spiritual Discourse and the Meaning of Persons and Literature and ... Read more
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