Valorising Valentine Brown
Patricia Craig, 5 September 1985
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939
by W.J. McCormack.
Oxford, 423 pp., £27.50, June 1985,0 19 812806 1 Show More
by W.J. McCormack.
Oxford, 423 pp., £27.50, June 1985,
Across a Roaring Hill
edited by Gerald Dawe and Edna Longley.
Blackstaff, 258 pp., £10.95, July 1985,0 85640 334 2 Show More
edited by Gerald Dawe and Edna Longley.
Blackstaff, 258 pp., £10.95, July 1985,
Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980
by Seamus Deane.
Faber, 199 pp., £15, July 1985,0 571 13500 5 Show More
by Seamus Deane.
Faber, 199 pp., £15, July 1985,
“... literary critics’ valorisation of tradition’. This phrase occurs towards the end of W.J. McCormack’s dissection of Anglo-Irishness as a literary and historical concept, Ascendancy and Tradition. ‘Valorise’, indeed, is a verb much favoured in this book, along with others like ‘energise’ and ‘traumatise’. There’s a word that might be ... ”