Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature.
Author: MARTIN, Augustine (Edited by Anthony Roche).
University College Dublin, 1996. 259 pages. Paperback.
CONTENTS:- Acknowledgements. Introduction (by Anthony Roche).
SECTION ONE: Yeats, Synge and Joyce. Apocalyptic Structure in Yeats’s Secret Rose. Hound Voices Were They All: An Experiment in Yeats Criticism. Yeats Remembered. Christy Mahon and the Apotheosis of Loneliness. Priest and Artist in Joyce’s Early Fiction. Novelist and City: The Technical Challenge.
SECTION TWO: Inherited Dissent. Inherited Dissent: The Dilemma of the Irish Writer. Anglo-Irish Literature: The Protestant Legacy.
SECTION THREE: The Irish Prose Tradition. James Stephens’s Crock of Gold. Fable and Fantasy. A Skeleton Key to the Stories of Mary Lavin.
SECTION FOUR: Selected Reviews. Francis Stuart The Pillar of Cloud and Redemption. Edna O’Brien Time and Tide. Aidan Matthews Lipstick on the Host. Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist. John Montague The Dead Kingdom.
SECTION FIVE: The Poet as Witness. The Rediscovery of Austin Clarke. That Country Childhood: Extracts from a Biography of Patrick Kavanagh. Technique and Territory in Brendan Kennelly’s Early Work. Quest and Vision: Eavan Boland’s The Journey. Augustine Martin: A Checklist of Publications (by Anthony Roche). Index.
ISBN: 1900621029
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