Title & Author:

The vibrant house : Irish writing and domestic space / Rhona Richman Kenneally and Lucy McDiarmid, editors.

Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.
'3' / Vona Groarke -- 'I am off-white walls': exploring and theorizing domestic space / Rhona Richman Kenneally -- OUR HOUSE -- A moving house / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Four paintings and a cloakroom / Mary Morrissy -- Omphalos / Colette Bryce -- Home is where you start from / Theo Dorgan -- Liturgies of fire and water / Macdara Woods -- THE VIBRANT HOUSE : A VISUAL ESSAY -- THEIR HOUSE -- 'Flung open': walking into the parlour in Victorian Irish literature / Howard Keeley -- Inside the house: Synge's stage spaces / Nicholas Grene -- Hairpins among the rifles: the domestic site in women's accounts of 1916 / Lucy McDiarmid -- The house that never blew up: Maeve Brennan's Dublin home / Angela Bourke -- The vibrancy of first houses in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon / Adam Hanna -- Melancholy ornaments in the house of Edna O'Brien's fiction / Maureen O'Connor -- A wandering to find home: Adam & Paul (2004) / Tony Tracy -- 'How to read a building' /Vona Groarke.

Summary:

This collection of short memoirs and critical essays explores the relation between home as metaphor and symbol, and home as a physical, material, and spatial entity.

ISBN:

9781846826481 (softcover)
1846826489 (softcover)

Subject:

English literature Irish authors History and criticism.
Home in literature.
Littérature anglaise Auteurs irlandais Histoire et critique.
Foyer dans la littérature.
English literature Irish authors.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Kenneally, Rhona Richman, editor.
McDiarmid, Lucy, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299162
Call No.: BIB 245271
Status: Available