Issue 12.3
Overview
Special Issue: The Irish Tradition in Literature
Published: April 1979
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16 essays, totalling 200 pages
$15.00 CAD
Placing the spotlight on the Irish tradition in literature, this issue of Mosaic focuses on the question of what is distinctly Irish about literature and Irish Literature. With essays exploring the written and oral relationship, symbolic language, irony, and structure, most of these essays focus on the work of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, along with an essay on Samuel Beckett and additional essays on Irish literature as a cultural phenomenon.
Traditional Irish Music in Contemporary Irish LiteratureSeán V. Golden | |
The Evolution of an Image: German Perceptions of Ireland and the Irish During the Eighteenth CenturyPatrick O'Neill | |
Swift through Le Fanu and JoyceJohn P. Harrington | |
Lecture de Pénélope: La notion de désire chez JoyceClaudine Potvin | |
The Ironic Vision of Mary LavinCatherine A. Murphy | |
The Short Story in IrishMaureen Murphy | |
Traditional Innovations: Yeats and Joyce and Irish Oral TraditionMary Helen Thuente | |
The Adjective as SymbolConrad A. Balliet | |
Views of YeatsD. E. S. Maxwell | |
Pattern and Void: Bowen's Irish Landscapes and The Heat of the DayBarbara Brothers | |
The Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh: A ReappraisalJohn Wilson Foster | |
Virgin Queen or Hungry Fiend: The Failure of Imagination in Patrick Kavanagh's The Great HungerWeldon Thorton | |
Looking for Beckett's Lost OnesEric P. Levy | |
Needless Horror or Terrible BeautyPatrick Holland | |
Yeats' Dramatic ImaginationJoseph Ronsley | |
Ireland MythologizedBrian John |