Author: Publisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Publisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Irish Folk Tales
Author: Henry GlassiePublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Representative Irish Tales
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: House of Stratus Limited
ISBN: 9780755116720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
First published in 1891, W B Yeats' anthology of nineteenth-century Irish fiction is of great significance in his early career. Yeats' selection is tailored to illustrate the ways that the principal Irish novelists represented Irish character; in particular how well they had depicted the Irish peasantry and their lives. His introductory commentary and editorial notes provide a fascinating perspective on this relatively unknown but influential phase of his work, while his observations on individual authors emphasises the idiosyncrasies of the novelists' lives as well as the qualities of their fiction.
Representative Irish Tales
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN: 9780391339873
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Representative Irish Tales
Author: Representative Irish Tales
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.
Irish Culture and the People
Author: Seamus O'MalleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192858416
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force. Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked The People--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms.
The Names Upon the Harp, Irish Myth and Legend
Author: Marie HeaneyPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590680523
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A sampling of some of the most famous Irish legends.