Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature The Problem of English /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: O'Sullivan, Michael (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature .; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary History.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood 'from a distance'. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly working in English, while...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Swift: The Irish expat 'at home' with "our language"
• 3. Goldsmith: The Irish expat in London as "Chinaman"
• 4. Irish expat empire builders in China and Hong Kong: Robert Hart and John Pope Hennessy
• 5. Yeats: The expat buys property back home
• 6. Joyce: The expat and the 'loss of English'
• 7. Bowen: the unspeakable loneliness of the Anglo-Irish expat
• 8. Boland: can the expat find a 'home' in language?
• 9. A Forgotten Irish Cosmopolitanism: Goh Poh Seng's Ireland
• 10. Social Network Expatriatism and new departures in John Boyne and Donal Ryan.