Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland

This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and Walter Benjamin's work on historiography. hese are applied to major writers such as Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon and Edna Longley and to institutions such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

Richard Kirkland is Lecturer in English at Keele University.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Interregnum, the Institution and the Critic	p. 1
'In the Midst of All this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent	p. 19
The country	p. 19
The city	p. 33
'This Thing Could Rule the World': Northern Writing and the Idea of Coterie	p. 53
Northern myths and communal satires	p. 53
Coteries and schools	p. 66
'Unconscious Partitionism': Northern Criticism in the Eighties	p. 85
Criticism and autonomy	p. 85
Versions of intervention	p. 102
'Nothing Left but the Sense of Exhaustion': Field Day and Counter-hegemony	p. 121
The development of a Northern intelligentsia	p. 121
Derry and the Angel of History	p. 134
'Just Another Twist in the Plot': Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and the Final Institution	p. 149
Paradigms of possibility	p. 149
Conclusion: Madoc and the institution	p. 160
Works Cited	p. 172
Index	p. 182
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Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger

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