On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing

This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial "nightmare" from which Joyce's Stephen Dedalus tried to awake, but as a rich, imaginative resource. Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama and poetry.Klein, Bernhard is the author of 'On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780719075858 and ISBN 0719075858.