Irish Literature and Culture

21.6 x 13.8 cm.     x, 196 pp.   1992     Irish Literary Studies series (ISSN 0140-895X)  volume 35

This volume deals with the illumination of literature through the study of other art forms. A diverse and absorbing variety of subjects are called in aid of literary analysis, including music, aesthetics, politics, rebellion, ritual, stage design, painting, sociology, cinema, and colonisation. The essays are adapted from papers given at the 1988 Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies in Montreal, entitled `Cultural and Artistic Contexts of Irish Literature'.

Two essays, by Andrew Carpenter and Mary Helen Thuente, have been added to lend completeness to the collection. The other contributors are: Zack Bowen, Richard Allen Cave, Terry Egleton, John Wilson Foster, Richard Kearney, Declan Kiberd, Edna Longley, Patrick Rafroidi and Wolfgang Zach, with the conference opening address by Hiroshi Suzuki.

PREFACE. Michael Kenneally<br

OPENING ADDRESS. Hiroshi Suzuki<br

CHANGING VIEWS ON IRISH MUSICAL AND LITERARY CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE. Andrew Carpenter<br

AESTHETICS AND POLITICS In EDMUND BURKE. Terry Eagleton<br

THE LITERARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN. Mary Helen Thuente<br

THOMAS MOORE: TOWARDS A REASSESSMENT? Patrick Refroidi<br

MUSIC AND RITUAL IN ULYSSES. Zack Bowen<br

STAGE DESIGN AS A FORM OF DRAMATIC CRITICISM. Richard allen Cave<br

NO MORE POEMS ABOUT PAINTINGS? Edna Longley<br

CRITICISM, THEATRE AND POLITICS: BRIAN FRIEL'S THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY IN ITS EARLY RECEPTION. Wolfgang Zach<br

FATHERS AND SONS: IRISH STYLE. Declan Kiberd<br

MODERN IRISH CINEMA: RE-VIEWING TRADITIONS. Richard Kearney<br

CULTURE AND COLONIZATION: A NORTHERN PERSPECTIVE. John Wilson Foster<br

Notes<br

Notes on Contributors<br

Index