Aaron Kelly & Alan Gillis, eds., Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 221pp.

Contents
  • Foreword by Edna Longley [v];
  • Introduction [xii];
  • Nicholas Allen, ‘A Political Vision: George Russell and the Interpreters [1];
  • Stephanie Bachorz, ‘Postcolonial Theory and Ireland: Revising Postcolonialism’ [6];
  • Rachel Buxton, ‘‘Structure and Serendipity: The Influence of Robert Frost on Paul Muldoon’ [14];
  • Ester Carrillo, ‘Bleak Cities: Belfast in Maurice Leitch’s Novels and Barcelona in the Work of Juan Marsé’ [22];
  • Brian Cliff, ‘“As Assiduously Advertised”: Publicizing the 1899 Irish Literary Theatre Season’ [30];
  • David Cotter, ‘Note from the Rathmines Underground, or, The Spiders and the Bees’ [37];
  • Paul Delaney, ‘Becoming National: Daniel Corkery and the Reterritorialized Subject’ [41];
  • Noreen Doody, ‘An Influential Involvement: Wilde, Yeats and the French Symbolists [48];
  • Gareth Joseph Downes, ‘“A Terrible Heretic”: James Joyce and Catholicism’ [55];
  • Desmond Fitzgibbon , ‘“Delfas, Dorbqk, Nublid, Dalway”: The Irish City after Joyce’ [62];
  • Brendan Fleming, ‘French Spectacles in an Irish Case: From Lettres sur l’Irlande to Parnell and His Island’ [69];
  • Ana Rosa Garcia, ‘Holograms of Cityscapes in Eavan Boland’s Object Lessons’ [76];
  • Diana Perez Garcia, ‘Imagining Memory: Ulysses and A Journal of the Plague Year, or the Novel of the Inventory’ [81];
  • Alan A. Gillis, ‘Patrick Kavanagh’s Poetics of the Peasant’ [87];
  • James Heaney , ‘A E., The Irish Civil War, and the Dialogical Text’ [95];
  • Christian Huck, ‘Myth, ‘History and Past in the Poetry of Eavan Boland’ [102];
  • Stephen Hull, ‘Vocationalism, the University and the Poverty of Literary Reviewing’ [108];
  • Adrienne Janus, ‘Song, Murmurs and Laughter in Irish Writing: Sound and Socialization as Liminal Occasions in Language, Literature and the Self’ [115];
  • Aaron Kelly, ‘Reproblematizing the Irish Text’ [124];
  • John Kenny, ‘The Critic in Pieces: The Theory and Practice of Literary Reviewing’ [132];
  • Jarleth Killeen, ‘Woman and Nation Revisited- Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose’ [141];
  • Francesca Lacaita, ‘The Journey of the Encounter: The Politics of the National Tale in Sydney Owenson’s Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui’ [148];
  • Bernie Leacock, ‘Irish Ireland: Recreating the Gael’ [154];
  • Michael McAteer , ‘Yeats’s Endgame: Postcolonialism and Modernism’ [160];
  • John McAuliffe, ‘Urban Hymns: The City, Desire and Theology in Austin Clarke and Patrick Kavanagh’ [166];
  • Robbie Meredith, ‘The Shan Van Vocht: Notes from the North’ [173];
  • Katy Plowright, ‘A Celtic Resurrection: Perspectives on Yeats Generation in the Fin de Siècle’ [180];
  • Jule Anne Stevens, ‘The Staging of Protestant Ireland in Somerville and Ross’ The Real Charlotte’ [188];
  • Hanne Tange, ‘In Memoriam James Joyce: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Tradition of Scottish Multilingualism’ [195];
  • Karen Vandevelde, ‘As the Snake It Shed Its Skin - or How the Irish National Ideal of the Irish National Theatre Was Abandoned in Favour of a Corporate Trademark (1902-1906)’ [203];
  • David Wheatley, ‘“Great Hatred, Little Room”: The Writer, the University and the Small Magazine’ [208].
  • Index [217].

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