Irish Writers on Writing - Boland, Eavan
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What does it mean to be a writer in the context of a country's centuries of uncertainty and upheaval? How does an Irish writer define Irish writing? The writers here, who range from early legends like Yeats to modern masters like Roddy Doyle, address these questions through their sources: the land, the Church, the past, and changing politics and literary styles. The book begins with William Yeats and Augusta Gregory's dazzling meditations on the founding of the National Theatre as a venue for a new Irish imagination. Lady Gregory herself is the subject of pithy essays by Kate O'Brien and Colm…mehr

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What does it mean to be a writer in the context of a country's centuries of uncertainty and upheaval? How does an Irish writer define Irish writing? The writers here, who range from early legends like Yeats to modern masters like Roddy Doyle, address these questions through their sources: the land, the Church, the past, and changing politics and literary styles. The book begins with William Yeats and Augusta Gregory's dazzling meditations on the founding of the National Theatre as a venue for a new Irish imagination. Lady Gregory herself is the subject of pithy essays by Kate O'Brien and Colm Toibin. Poets discuss their peers -- Corkery on the Gaelic poets; Frank O'Connor on Corkery; O'Casey on Yeats; Roddy Doyle on Synge. Emma Donoghue illuminates the life of a lesbian Irish writer, while John Banville excoriates Bloomsday and "the pervasiveness and bathos of the Joyce myth." "Irish Writers on Writing" raises a toast to one of the world's most vital literary traditions.
Autorenporträt
Eavan Boland is the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University. She has been a writer-in-residence at Trinity College and University College in Dublin, Ireland. She was a poet-in-residence at the National Maternity Hospital during its 1994 centenary. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including Against Love Poetry, In a Time of Violence, and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87, and the prose collection Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. Boland is on the board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and her honors include the Lannan Award for Poetry. She lives in Stanford, California.