France and Ireland in the Public Imagination.
Title:
France and Ireland in the Public Imagination.
Author:
Keatinge, Benjamin.
ISBN:
9783035305920
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Series:
Reimagining Ireland ; v.55
Reimagining Ireland
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Benjamin Keatinge and Mary Pierse Introduction -- Part I Seeing France and Ireland -- Pierre Joannon The Influence of France on Ireland: Myth or Reality? -- Mary Pierse Seeing France: Varying Irish Perceptions at the Fin de Siècle -- Anne Goarzin Attractive Marginality: Irish Painters in Brittany in the 1880s -- Part II Constructing the Images -- Michèle Milan For the People, the Republic and the Nation: Translating Béranger in Nineteenth-Centur -- Michel Brunet 'On the barricades': John Montague's Imaginary Representation of May '68 in The Pea -- Karine Deslandes Ian Paisley: Generating French Perceptions of an Ulster Loyalist Leader -- Eamon Maher The Enfant Terrible of French Letters: Michel Houellebecq -- Part III The Public Spheres: Interventions and Interpretations -- Eugene O'Brien Towards an Irish Republic: Cultural Critique and an Alternative Paradigm -- Benjamin Keatinge 'So much depends on a TV appearance': Popular and Performative Aspects of the Poe -- Conor Farnan Chagall, Balthus, Picasso, Lascaux: French Influences on Paul Durcan's Engagement wi -- Part IV Haute Cuisine and High Society: Ça s'arrose! -- Dorothy Cashman French Boobys and Good English Cooks: The Relationship with French Culinary Influe -- Tara McConnell Ireland in the Georgian Era: Was There Any Kingdom in Europe So Good a Customer at B -- Brian Murphy Exporting a 'Sense of Place': Establishment of Regional Gastronomic Identity Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This engaging collection of essays considers the cultural complexities of the Franco-Irish relationship in song and story, image and cuisine, novels, paintings and poetry. It casts a fresh eye on public perceptions of the historic bonds between Ireland and France, revealing a rich variety of contact and influence. Controversy is not shirked, whether on the subject of Irish economic decline or reflecting on prominent, contentious personalities such as Ian Paisley and Michel Houellebecq. Contrasting ideas of the popular and the intellectual emerge in a study of Brendan Kennelly; recent Irish tribunals are analysed in the light of French cultural theory; and familiar renditions of Franco-Irish links are re-evaluated against the evidence of newspaper and journal accounts. Drawing on the disciplines of history, art, economics and literature, and dipping into the good wines of France and Ireland, the book paints a fascinating picture of the relationship between the two countries over three dramatic centuries.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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