Irish Literature and the First World War

Culture, Identity and Memory

von Terry Phillips

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book analyses poetry and prose written by combatant and non-combatant Irish writers during the First World War, focusing on key works influenced by Irish, English and European literary traditions. It highlights the complex positions adopted by writers in relation to the international conflict and to Irish debates about nationhood, which resist reduction to the simple binaries of Unionist/pro-war and Nationalist/anti-war. The book goes on to discuss the literature of the decades following the war, looking at how the conflict was remembered in the two parts of the now divided island, both by individuals and collectively, and investigating the dynamic interrelationship between personal recollection and public memory. In conclusion, the author discusses contemporary literature about the war, which often examines family memory as well as collective memory, and explores its role in the narrative of nationhood, both north and south of the border.

• Reihe: Reimagining Ireland
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783034319690
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2015
• Größe: 22.5 x 15 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers