Beckett/Beckett

vivian-mercier

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

This book makes the first sustained attempt to trace an unbroken comic tradition in Irish literature from approximately the ninth century down to the present day.  Irish humor, wit, satire, and parody each receive separate treatment in one or more chapters.  The continuity between Gaelic and Anglo-Irish comic literature is stressed, and surprising early analogues are found for certain aspects of Swift, Joyce, Beckett, and many other Anglo-Irish writers.  Mr. Mercier constantly points to the primitive impulses underlying comic expression - impulses which the archaizing tendency of Irish literature brings into unusual prominence.  He claims the comic as the central tradition of Irish literature and suggests that the comic spirit may antedate the tragic throughout world literature.

The Irish Comic Tradition (Galaxy Books)

Presents fresh perspectives on the man and his works, distinguishing his life from his art and examining contrasting ideas at the core of Beckett's work

Essays & Correspondence

Modern Irish Literature marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing. Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English. Separate chapters analyzing the work of writers including Bernard Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Beckett build to provide a fresh and timely picture of Irish literary tradition. Informed by a wealth and diversity of scholarship, and written in a highly accessible style, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish literature.

Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

The Irish comic tradition

Souvenir Press Ltd.

Great Irish Short Stories

History & Criticism

Souvenir Press

The New Novel: From Queneau to Pinget

Farrar, Srauss & Giroux

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Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Barnes&Noble Books

From time immemorial, the Irish have had a gift for storytelling. This collection features some of the best writing, culled from ancient literature and folkore, and from modern writers like John Millington Synge, Frank O'Connor, James Joyce, and Mary Lavin. Excerpts include a short note on each writer, providing a miniature history of the development of Irish literature.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Barnes&Noble

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