The histories of western romanticism have until now forgotten Ireland whose literature in English is often believed to have began with Joyce, Yeats or O'Casey. This book is an attempt to take care of this oversight…

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If the name of Reverend Charles Robert Maturin is not only known by the amateurs of roman noir, it is because he is often associated to famous authors like Byron, Poe, Goethe, Baudelaire or Balzac. This book aims at giving a more truthful and more complete image of both Maturin and his work…

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Ireland's entry in the common market? Civil War in the North? Need to rediscover a remote but so similar fellow, to change landscape and myths? There may be many reasons but the fact is France is more and more interested in its Celtic sister…

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The text of the 1865 edition of John Banim's famous historical novel first published in 1826, with an introduction an glossary by Bernard Escarbelt…

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James Plunkett's short stories are essentially about Dublin and Dubliners in the years that followed the Second World War. As in Joyce’s Dubliners, the feeling of frustration is perceptible everywhere…

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Yeats, one of the greatest English-language poets, had never been the object of a long-term critical work in France. This volume fills in this gap, studying the poetic creation — at the same time the work created and the creative process…

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Catholics is more than the reflection of a major writer's personality and a masterpiece of construction and economy. Behind the confrontation between the young priest, harbinger of a new-style Church that turns its back on tradition, and the uncooperative Abbot…

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If Ireland keeps eternal values, it is also a country that, yesterday economically under-developed, is now preparing, slowly but surely, its entry into the twenty-first century. This unprecedented mutation in its already turbulent history, affects Irish politics, industry, trade…

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Wherever the deep reasons for the success of the short story in Ireland come from — the historical, sociological or aesthetical progression of the country — it is a well-known fact, together with the excellence of numerous of its followers, from Carleton to John McGahern, from George Moore to the inevitable Joyce…

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The figure of James Joyce in Paris is no longer or hardly the wouldbe medical of 1903, disescting Aristotle and making game of Thomas Aquinas. "Prix de Paris: beware of imitations". It is somewhat that of threatened canonization which friendship still portrays. It is also, really, the author once-removed, in exchange for speech effects, a sheaf...

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Joyce à Paris, ce n'est plus, ou c'est à peine, le carabin manqué de 1903, disséquant Aristote, canulant Saint Thomas. "Prix de Paris : beware of imitations". C'est encore un peu la figure menacée de canonisation que l'amitié dessine de la voix…

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The theme of this Irish satire from the end of the XVIIth century is the lack of learning among the Catholic clergy in the countryside on account of the wretched facilities for priestly training and education in Ireland during the Penal Days…

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Collection of literary, occult and political essays, Explorations sheds an essential light on Yeats' work and particularly on his brand new conception of theatrical techniques…

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The plays gathered here are the works of two famous northern Irish dramatists who experienced the ever-present Civil War that they stage with faith and talent. The spirit that enimates Boyd and Friel is the same, the places are different…

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Brian Friel, born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, is the author of several radio plays and a dozen theatre plays, given in Belfast, Dublin, London, New York. He is one of the most famous contemporary English-language dramatists…

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Collection of tales and legends, The Celtic Twilight is made of Yeats' memories of childhood and youth. Written in the context of a general interest for folklore, it gave its name to a period of Irish literary history…

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The stories that follow the Celtic Twilight and are located in real place of the West of Ireland, open the door on Celtic legends and mythology: magical world made of ghostly figures from hallucinations, world of metamorphoses…

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This collection of articles show Yeats' main interests. Ireland is there, both real with the Parnell affair that tore it all apart, imaginary with the esoteric world of druidic magic whose interpreting key is provided by an oriental background…

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