Ireland, Literature, and the Coast
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Ireland, Literature, and the Coast by Nicholas Allen
Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.
In sum, this new study is excellently written, capacious in scope, thoroughly researched, and original in approachIt leaves some open strands of argument--from the role of Ireland in the racial dynamics of maritime empire to the potential linkages between Scottish and Irish writing in a devolved archipelago--that others will pick up, tracing their analysis back to Allen's watershed effort. All of which will be part of the lasting impact on Irish, ecocritical, modernist, and contemporary literary studies that Ireland, Literature and the Coast is likely to have. * Nels Pearson, Twentieth Century Literature *
The first major environmentally conscious monograph to appear in Irish Studies... Nicholas Allen's Ireland, Literature and the Coast explores the maritime and watery dimensions of the country... Allen's study will be influential for years to come. * John Kerrigan, LRB *
Brimming with ideas, names and points of reference, Seatangled is an agenda-setting book that will help return the study of modern Irish writing to the coast. * Claire Connolly, Irish Times *
...this crucial volume will energize and long sustain these and much wider conversations about humanity, culture, and our relationship to the nature and environment of the terraqueous globe. * Colin Dewey, Sea History *
Allen fuses Irish literature and his own thalassography into an interdependent essence. Quite an accomplishment. * Dan Maccarthy, Irish Examiner *
I began this book during a summer when European rivers ran dry;...Seatangled reflects the transitional period in which we live, moving from an analysis of water as symbol and metaphor to an exploration of water with powerful agency. * Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Kirkpatrick *
The first major environmentally conscious monograph to appear in Irish Studies... Nicholas Allen's Ireland, Literature and the Coast explores the maritime and watery dimensions of the country... Allen's study will be influential for years to come. * John Kerrigan, LRB *
Brimming with ideas, names and points of reference, Seatangled is an agenda-setting book that will help return the study of modern Irish writing to the coast. * Claire Connolly, Irish Times *
...this crucial volume will energize and long sustain these and much wider conversations about humanity, culture, and our relationship to the nature and environment of the terraqueous globe. * Colin Dewey, Sea History *
Allen fuses Irish literature and his own thalassography into an interdependent essence. Quite an accomplishment. * Dan Maccarthy, Irish Examiner *
I began this book during a summer when European rivers ran dry;...Seatangled reflects the transitional period in which we live, moving from an analysis of water as symbol and metaphor to an exploration of water with powerful agency. * Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Kirkpatrick *
Nicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Endowed Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia. A native of Belfast, he has published several books on Ireland and its literature, has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198857877 |
| ISBN 10 | 019885787X |
| Title | Ireland, Literature, and the Coast |
| Author | Nicholas Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2020-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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