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Notes on a "classic" (1).(Book Review)

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From: symploke
Date: 20040101
Author:Watt, Stephen

Like his 1995 book Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, Declan Kiberd's Irish Classics is, well, "classic." This cliche, much like the disarmingly simple title of this fine study, would seem not to require a protracted unpacking, but given the broad spectrum of texts potentially qualifying as Irish classics it probably does. A kind of double complexity inheres in Kiberd's simple title. Not surprisingly for a study that endeavors to address some four centuries of Irish writing, entire chapters are dedicated to such canonical texts as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's ...

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