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Excess in Modern Irish Writing, 1st ed. 2020
Spirit and Surplus
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
Author: McAteer Michael
Language: EnglishSubjects for Excess in Modern Irish Writing:
Publication date: 03-2021
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 03-2020
279 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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Chapter One: Introduction.- Part One: Mystical Excess.- Chapter Two: Excess as Spiritual Ecstasy: Yeats and Joyce.- Chapter Three: Oriental Excess: Wilde, Yeats, MacNeice.- Chapter Four: Transgressive Sacrifice: Pearse, Yeats, Carr.- Part Two: Material Excess.- Chapter Five: Money and Melodrama: Boucicault, Wilde, Shaw.- Chapter Six: Disposable Living: O’Casey, Beckett, Doyle.- Chapter Seven: Trashing Ulster: Patterson and Reid.- Part Three: Mythic and Linguistic Excess.- Chapter Eight: Mythic Excess: Finnegans Wake.- Chapter Nine: A-voiding the Subject: Bowen and Beckett.- Chapter Ten: Rhyming Away: Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian.