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Ireland & the English crisis / Tom Paulin.

By: Paulin, Tom.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, 1984Description: 222 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0906427630; 0906427649.Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Politics and literatureDDC classification: 820.9
Contents:
The making of a loyalist / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- A Professional Irishman / Tom Moore -- The cruelty that is natural / William Trevor, Kingsley Amis -- National Myths / John le Carre, John Morrow, Brian Moore -- A Terminal Ironist / Derek Mahon -- For the ancient Britons: Edward Thomas -- In Golden Mentmore: Henry James -- The Writer Underground / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- The man from no part: Louis MacNeice -- In the salt mines / Louis Mac Neice -- Disaffection and Defection: W. H. Auden -- The British Presence in Ulysses -- The French are on the sea / Thomas Flanagan -- Life Sculpture: Patrick Kavanagh -- Lawrence after fifty years -- The earnest puppet: Edward Carson -- Nineteen Twelve / George Birmingham -- Those foul ulster tories / Patrick Shea -- The disloyalist / Roy Bradford -- Formal pleasure: The short story -- Britishmen / Jack Holland, Patrick Buckland -- James Joyce: A Centenary Celebration -- English Now -- Paisley's Progress -- A new England / Angela Carter -- A new look at the language question -- The Aesthetic Fenian: Oscar Wilde -- Shadow of the gunmen / W. B. Yeats -- In the beginning was the Aeneid: On Translation / Charles Tomlinson, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Leopold staff.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 820.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00011619
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In these brilliantly argued essays on Irish and English literature, Tom Paulin shows how writers react to political struggles and cultural upheaval - from Joyce in colonial Ireland and Auden in England in the Thirties to today's Belfast poet or Derry dramatist. The keynote of this controversial book is the phrase 'writing to the moment'. And like Samuel Richardson - whose motto this was - Tom Paulin is writing in the instant, about the present, and for the current age.Tom Paulin tackles the present crisis in English studies in a now notorious discussion of structuralism in education. This exemplary, incisive essay confronts critical fashions like "deconstruction" and exposes their destructive limitations.The book includes Paulin's famous polemic against Conor Cruise O'Brien, as well as his careful, rigorous account of Ian Paisley's writings and pronouncements. In these and in other essays he establishes a historical and cultural perspective, exploring first the "Englishness" of D.H. Lawrence, John le Carré and the expatriate Henry James, then the "Anglo-Irishness" of Oscar Wilde, William Trevor and Louis MacNeice.These forceful essays will contribute to a tradition of critical independence. They will combat what Tom Paulin calls the 'terminal self-disgust' with which much contemporary literary criticism is now afflicted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The making of a loyalist / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- A Professional Irishman / Tom Moore -- The cruelty that is natural / William Trevor, Kingsley Amis -- National Myths / John le Carre, John Morrow, Brian Moore -- A Terminal Ironist / Derek Mahon -- For the ancient Britons: Edward Thomas -- In Golden Mentmore: Henry James -- The Writer Underground / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- The man from no part: Louis MacNeice -- In the salt mines / Louis Mac Neice -- Disaffection and Defection: W. H. Auden -- The British Presence in Ulysses -- The French are on the sea / Thomas Flanagan -- Life Sculpture: Patrick Kavanagh -- Lawrence after fifty years -- The earnest puppet: Edward Carson -- Nineteen Twelve / George Birmingham -- Those foul ulster tories / Patrick Shea -- The disloyalist / Roy Bradford -- Formal pleasure: The short story -- Britishmen / Jack Holland, Patrick Buckland -- James Joyce: A Centenary Celebration -- English Now -- Paisley's Progress -- A new England / Angela Carter -- A new look at the language question -- The Aesthetic Fenian: Oscar Wilde -- Shadow of the gunmen / W. B. Yeats -- In the beginning was the Aeneid: On Translation / Charles Tomlinson, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Leopold staff.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is Love's Bonfire (2012). Well known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

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