The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde’s ‘mode of style’, this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than ‘a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.’ Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgro...
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction ‘Petals’ on Sandymount Strand; S.Heaney Snow Was General All Over Japan; D.Mahon Self-Contained Images and the I...
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Irene De Angelis is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Torino, Italy. With Joseph Woods she is co-editor of
Our Shared Japan: An Anthology of Contemp...