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Patrick Kavanagh
This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.
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Patrick Kavanagh
This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.
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Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh

Overview

This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer's work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780716528937
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Series: Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Time , #1
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgements x

1 Introduction: 'Important Places, Times' Stan Smith 1

2 Life and Work: The Poetics of Sincerity Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 21

3 Kavanagh's Poetics and Prose: Against Formulae Alex Davis 39

4 The Moment of Kavanagh's Weekly Gerry Smyth 55

5 Kavanagh and the Irish Pastoral Tradition Oona Frawley 72

6 The Great Hunger and Mother Ireland Edward Larrissy 93

7 An 'Unmeasured Womb': A Soul for Sale and the 1937 Irish Constitution Michael Murphy 107

8 The Later Poetry and its Critical Reception John Goodby 121

9 'In Blinking Blankness': The Last Poems John Goodby 145

10 'The Door and What Came Through It': Aspects of Influence Bruce Stewart 163

Select Bibliography 189

The Patrick Kavanagh Centre 199

Index 201

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