The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture

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The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture is written by Marta Goszczyńska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443830895 (ISBN 10) and 9781443830898 (ISBN 13).

While discussions in the field of Irish Studies traditionally gravitate towards themes of struggle, oppression and death, the present book originates from a contradictory impulse. Without losing sight of Ireland’s troubled history and the complexities that shape its present, it centres on instances of playfulness, light(ness) and air in Irish literature and culture. Refracted through the prism of contemporary philosophy (notably of Italo Calvino, Luce Irigaray and María Lugones), these categories serve as the basis for thirteen essays by academics from Poland, the UK, Germany and Spain. Some of these offer fresh readings of such seminal authors as W. B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney and John Banville; others look at lesser-known figures, such as Eimar O’Duffy and Forrest Reid, who, before now, have received little scholarly attention.