A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers

by Kenner, Hugh

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First edition

New York. 1983. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394422252. 301 pages. hardcover. Front of jacket (from left): Sean O'Casey, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce. Back of jacket (from left): J. M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lady Gregory, and Samuel Beckett. Jacket painting by Edward Sorel. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg. keywords: Literary Criticism Ireland Literature. DESCRIPTION - From one of the finest critics at work in America today (Marianne Moore called him �entertaining and fearless'), a brilliant, funny, complicated, altogether dazzling account of the Irish Literary Revival, that surprising explosion of genius which first made itself heard in the last years of the nineteenth century and whose aftershocks are still rumbling through the world of letters. Here are Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, and the rest, disagreeing and complaining and sometimes helping one another - and at the same time producing, in the name of their tiny, impoverished, unlikely country, a literature as splendid and prepotent as anything in our time. Hugh Kenner's theme is the seizure of the English language by writers whose relation to it was oddly uncomfortable, even alien - and their creation of a new idiom that was to dominate and define International Modernism. His technique is anecdote and example. In his hands, biography jostles critical insight, social history erupts into choice quotation, �facts' reveal themselves to be invention - or another kind of literature

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