Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0268044236 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eamonn Wall is Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
"How the Irish West resembles the American one" according to John L Murphy. This Irish poet-critic teaches in St. Louis and frequently summers in Colorado. His continental crossings led him to connect writers from the West of Ireland with those of the American landscapes he visited. This book collects seven essays about seven authors from Ireland who explore on the page the scenes that resemble those of the plains and mountains--and the oceans missing from the interiors which their American counterparts generally inhabit.He starts with Tim Robinson, a Yorkshire-born, Cambridge-educated mathematician and visual artist turned literary cartographer of the Aran Islands, Connemara, and the Burren a
Louis.. About the AuthorEamonn Wall is Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St
Wall draws on extensive research on the literature of the American West for a comparative study that places the Irish and American Wests side by side. He employs a methodology that attends to literary cartography, postcolonial contexts, and persuasive close readings of his authors. S. Although well-developed theoretical approaches to reading Western American literature have been practiced for years, no such approaches exist in Irish discourse. Maher, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth"Eamonn Wall's spl