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2017050680 |
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DLC |
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171102s2018 mau b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2017050680 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674976566 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth : alk. paper) |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MH/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
MH |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PR8753 |
| Item number |
.K52 2018 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
820.9/9415 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kiberd, Declan, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
After Ireland : |
| Remainder of title |
writing the nation from Beckett to the present / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Declan Kiberd. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Harvard University Press edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 540 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Head of Zeus Ltd First Floor East London ECIR 3RG." |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions and thrown the nation's struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared "the birth of a nation might also seal its doom." In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland's founding spirit--and a strange kind of hope. After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Ireland's ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Ireland's troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-528) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: After Ireland? -- Beckett's inner exile -- Interchapter: A neutral Ireland? -- 'Gaeldom is over': The bell -- A talking corpse? Sáirséal agus Dill -- A parrot in Ringsend - Máire Mhac an tSaoi -- Growing up absurd: Edna O'Brien and The country girls -- Frank O'Connor: A mammy's boy -- Interchapter: Secularization -- Richard Power and The hungry grass -- Interchapter: Migration -- Emigration once again: Friel's Philadelphia -- Interchapter: Northern troubles -- Seamus Heaney: The death of ritual and the ritual of death -- Interchapter: Europeanization -- The art of science: Banville's Doctor Copernicus -- The double vision of Michael Hartnett -- Brian Friel's Faith healer -- Theatre as opera: The Gigli concert -- Frank McGuinness and The sons of Ulster -- Derek Mahon's Lost worlds -- Interchapter: Irish language -- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Pharaoh's daughter -- Interchapter: Women's movement -- Eavan Boland: Outside history -- John McGahern's Amongst women -- Between First and Third World: Friel's Lughnasa -- Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke ha ha ha -- Interchapter: Peace comes dropping slow -- Seamus Deane: Reading in the dark -- Reading Éilis Ní Dhuibhne -- Making history: Joseph O'Connor -- Fallen nobility: McGahern's Rising sun -- Conor McPherson: The seafarer -- Claire Keegan: Foster -- Kate Thompson and The new policeman -- Conclusion: Going global?. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English literature |
| General subdivision |
Irish authors |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Irish literature |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
National characteristics, Irish, in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
National liberation movements in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nationalism in literature. |
| 775 08 - OTHER EDITION ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Preceded by (expression): |
| Main entry heading |
Kiberd, Declan. |
| Title |
After Ireland. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
London : Head of Zeus, 2017 |
| International Standard Book Number |
9781786693228 |
| Record control number |
(OCoLC)1007888055 |