David Clare

Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

Even after he achieved world-wide fame through books such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Screwtape Letters, the Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis often regarded as uncomplicatedly English by critics and the general public proudly and regularly described himself as Irish. What s more, he frequently incorporated Irish elements into his work. This includes, for example, numerous allusions to Irish mythology, the repeated employment of Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots words and expressions, and a preference for tropes frequently found in Irish (and sometimes specifically Ulster Protestant) writing.

Produktdetails

• Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-94389-8
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• ISBN-13: 9783031943898
• Artikelnr.: 73948379

Autorenporträt

David Clare is Lecturer in Drama and English at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. His previous books include the monographs Bernard Shaw s Irish Outlook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Irish Anglican Literature and Drama: Hybridity and Discord (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and the edited collections The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft (2018), The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016 (2 vols., 2021), and Across Borders and Time: Jonathan Swift (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- The man from God knows where Four Plays about C.S. Lewis that Ignore or Downplay his Irish Background.- Gods and fighting (wo)men Irish Mythology in the Work of C.S. Lewis.- Lit up inside C.S. Lewis s Joy and Ulster Protestant Ecstasy.- Four Nations C.S. Lewis s Ulster Irish Attempts to Redefine Britishness.