Bearing Witness

by Martin, Augustine; Roche, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781900621021
• ISBN10: 1900621029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr

Summary

These humane, engaged essays stand as a passionate encounter with the literary matters of Ireland. Augustine Martin's (1935-1995) reputation as one of Ireland's leading scholars of his country's literature has grown tremendously over the more than th

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Yeats, Synge and Joyce
Apocalyptic Structure in Yeats's Secret Rose	p. 3
Hound Voices Were They All: An Experiment in Yeats Criticism	p. 14
Yeats Remembered	p. 26
Christy Mahon and the Apotheosis of Loneliness	p. 32
Priest and Artist in Joyce's Early Fiction	p. 44
Sin and Secrecy in Joyce's Fiction	p. 56
Novelist and City: The Technical Challenge	p. 67
Inherited Dissent
Inherited Dissent: The Dilemma of the Irish Writer	p. 81
Anglo-Irish Literature: The Protestant Legacy	p. 100
The Irish Prose Tradition
James Stephens's The Crock of Gold	p. 115
Fable and Fantasy	p. 131
A Skeleton Key to the Stories of Mary Lavin	p. 141
Selected Reviews
Francis Stuart - The Pillar of Cloud and Redemption	p. 157
Edna O'Brien - Time and Tide	p. 159
Aidan Matthews - Lipstick on the Host	p. 162
Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist	p. 165
John Montague - The Dead Kingdom	p. 167
The Poet as Witness
The Rediscovery of Austin Clarke	p. 171
That Country Childhood: Extracts from a Biography of Patrick Kavanagh	p. 197
Technique and Territory in Brendan Kennelly's Early Work	p. 217
Quest and Vision: Eavan Boland's The Journey	p. 231
Augustine Martin: A Checklist of Publications	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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