Brendan Kennelly’s Literary Works: The Developing Art of an Irish Writer, 1959-2000

Immensely popular and prolific, Brendan Kennelly is one of the most challenging Irish poets writing today. In this study, Sedlmayr provides an overview of Kennelly's wide-ranging literary output from 1959 to the present. He also examines individual works from the perspective of recent Irish cultural theory, which incorporates the concerns of postcolonial theory, cultural studies, postmodernism, and deconstruction. Sedlmayr teaches at the U. of Passau in Germany. The volume is based upon his doctoral dissertation. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)