Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature The Problem of English /
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...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Schriftenreihe: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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| ISBN: | 9783319959009 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.