Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965

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Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965 is written by Richard Kirkland and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1315504316 (ISBN 10) and 9781315504315 (ISBN 13).

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.