Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook - Hardcover

Alexander G. Gonzalez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861721055 ISBN 13: 9780861721054

Publisher: Aldwych Press, 1997

Synopsis

A very good copy but it is ex community library and has at least three stamps, spine cloth has lifted but hinges are strong.

About this title

About the Author:

ALEXANDER G. GONZALEZ is Profesor of English, specializing in Irish literature at Cortland College of the State University of New York. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at The Ohio State University. During the summer of 1991 he served as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at The Pennsylvania State University, where he taught a course on contemporary Irish women poets. He has published several books, including Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge (Greenwood, 1996), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in Short Fiction, Irish University Review, Colby Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, and Eire-Ireland.

Review:

"Coverage is quite full, ranging from authors such as Joyce and Yeats, whose careers began in the nineteenth century and ended in the early to mid-twentieth century, to writers such as Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan, who were born in the 1950s. Modern Irish Writers is certain to serve students and scholars equally well. Students will appreciate the solid overview and comprehensiveness of a general basic textbook, and scholars will appreciate the information on less-familiar writers. Recommended for academic and large public libaries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

"The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril."- Rettig on Reference

?The essays will be a gold mine for graduate students, offering up nuggets such as topics that merit further scholarly exploration or noting that some writers (e.g., Oliver St. John Gogarty) have fallen into neglect and are due for a reassessment... Modern Irish Writers maps not just where scholarship on these writers has been, but points to the directions where it may go. Serious students of Irish literature of the past century will ignore it at their peril.?- Rettig on Reference

?Coverage is quite full, ranging from authors such as Joyce and Yeats, whose careers began in the nineteenth century and ended in the early to mid-twentieth century, to writers such as Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan, who were born in the 1950s. Modern Irish Writers is certain to serve students and scholars equally well. Students will appreciate the solid overview and comprehensiveness of a general basic textbook, and scholars will appreciate the information on less-familiar writers. Recommended for academic and large public libaries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

About this edition

• Publisher: Aldwych Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0861721055
• ISBN 13: 9780861721054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 457