Digesting the Past Anthologies and Bicultural Memory in Ireland

Authors
Publication date 2021
Host editors
  • J. Leerssen
Book title Parnell and his times
ISBN
  • 9781108495264
  • 9781108817905
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781108861786
  • 9781108863186
Chapter 7
Pages (from-to) 123-147
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)
Abstract The history of literary production in Ireland shows a traumatic cleavage between the Irish-Gaelic and English languages. The history of literary reception and canonicity shows, however, a bicultural literary continuum, constructed, from the early to mid-nineteenth century on, mainly by a tradition of anthologizing. This tradition still continues and incorporates both the production of scholarly text editions and poem collections for the general readership.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861786.009
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