Product Description: An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history...read more

Product Description: One of the most important playwrights of the Irish Renaissance, John Millington Synge is receiving renewed attention as his works are reread in light of the political and cultural contexts of his time. This book argues that his plays are far more deeply rooted, thematically and aesthetically, in the ancient native literature than was previously believed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this study the supposed difference between political nationalism and what is termed 'cultural nationalism' is interrogated. It is through literary tropes and images, after all, that the imaginary reflections and misrecognitions of land and religion have been instantiated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)