Aran Islands in Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature
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- ISBN 9783631565995
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2008
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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Though located in the topographical periphery of Ireland, the Aran Islands have been central for the construction of an Irish identity. For the scholars and writers involved in this process, Aran was used as a projection space for various desires – political, cultural and linguistic. This book maps the formation and development of a myth of place and analyses what functions it fulfilled at different stages in Irish history. The first literary history of Aran surveys an extensive compilation of texts and provides larger historical and cultural contexts. On this basis, five in-depth studies of works by Emily Lawless, John Synge, James Joyce, Liam O’Flaherty and Máirtín Ó Direáin unravel discourses and textual strategies employed in the representation of the Aran Islands.
The Author: Andrea Mayr was born in Feldkirch (Austria) in 1978. She studied English Language and Literature and Catholic Theology in Vienna, Edinburgh and Dublin and worked as research assistant to the Shane Leslie Biography Project at the University of Vienna. Her academic interests include Irish literature and history as well as conceptions of Irish identity.
