Publisher:
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern
This book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel. Irish writers of this period faced the...
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This book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel. Irish writers of this period faced the challenge of creating a literature in English that would be independent of the English literary tradition. The use of Hiberno-English is both a literary device and a practice that bears on the question of an Irish national identity
Cover; Table of Contents 9; Introductory Chapter 15; State of Research 21; Part I Language 27; Chapter 1 Linguistic Background of Irish and Hiberno-English (HE) 29; 1.1 Terminology 29; 1.1.1 Anglo-Irish 29; 1.1.2 Hiberno-English 30; 1.1.3 Irish English 31; 1.1.4 Irish Dialect, or Irish Dialect of English 31; 1.1.5 Brogue 32; 1.2 Historico-linguistic survey of Ireland 34; 1.3 National Identity and Language 38; 1.4 Features of Hiberno-English 46; 1.4.1 Syntactic and morphological features of Hiberno-English ('Grammar') 47; 1.4.2 Lexical features of Hiberno-English 57
1.4.3 Phonetic characteristics of Hiberno-English 591.4.4 Dublin speech, 'Elizabethan English' and other characteristics of Hiberno-English 63; Part II Literature 65; Chapter 2 Literary Background 67; 2.1 Dialect and Literature 67; 2.2 Anglo-Irish Literature 71; Chapter 3 James Joyce's Ulysses 81; Chapter 4 Flann O'Brien 117; 4.1 The Best of Myles 120; 4.2 The Poor Mouth 147; Chapter 5 Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel 169; 5.1 Bernard Shaw: John Bull's Other Island 171; 5.2 Brian Friel: Translations 191; Corpora 213; Ulysses 215; Lexical Features 215
Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 226Other Features 240; The Best of Myles 245; 'Waama, etc' 247; Lexical Features 247; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 247; Phonetic Features 248; 'The Brother' 248; Lexical Features 248; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 249; Phonetic Features 254; Other Features 256; 'The Plain People of Ireland' 257; Lexical Features 257; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 258; Phonetic Features 259; Other Features 260; 'Research Bureau' 260; Lexical Features 260
Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 261'The Cruiskeen Court of Voluntary Jurisdiction' 261; Lexical Features 261; Syntactic and Morphological Features 262; 'The District Court' 262; Lexical Features 262; Syntactic and Morphological Features 263; Phonetic Features 263; 'Sir Myles Na Gopaleen' 263; Lexical Features 263; 'For Steam Men' 264; Lexical Features 264; Syntactic and Morphological Features 264; Other Features 264; 'Keats and Chapman' 265; Lexical Features 265; Phonetic Features 265; 'Catechism of Clichés' 265; Lexical Features 265; Syntactic and Morphological Features 266
Phonetic Features 266'Criticism, Art, Letters' 266; Lexical Features 266; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 267; Phonetic Features 268; Other Features 269; 'Irish and Related Matters' 269; Lexical Features 269; Syntactic Features 269; 'Bores' 270; Lexical Features 270; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 270; Phonetic Features 272; Other Features 272; 'Miscellaneous' 272; Lexical Features 272; Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 273; Phonetic Features 275; Other Features 276; The Poor Mouth 277; Lexical Features 277
Syntactic and Morphological Features ('Grammar') 278