Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland (from the English - "Irish Periodicals Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland") - a scientific monograph of journalism researcher at Cardiff University , Ph.D. Malcolm Ballin's area of Anglicanism is about the history of the press in Ireland and culturally close countries. Released in 2008 in the series "New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature" ( eng. - "New Directions in Irish and Irish-American Literature") published by Palgrave Macmillan , edited by the professor of English studies Claire Callton [1] .
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Content
- 1 Contents
- 2 Critical Response
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Contents
The work begins with the introduction, by the lecturer of English literature, also of Cardiff University [2] Claire Connolly, where she characterizes the history of the journals as lived lives and appreciates their vivid description [3] .
The two introductory chapters, on the whole, touch upon the peculiarities of this kind of literature as occupying a somewhat strange position between a collection of randomly taken, unconnected materials and a whole book, questions of the categorization of publications, the central idea passing through the whole work, their relationship with the audience. The historical context is also given [3] [4] .
The following six chapters are thematically related to the two blocks [3] : each dedicated to each of Ballin's genres of publications - “reviews” ( English reviews ), “almanacs” ( English ), and “small magazines” ) [4] [5] - and comparing periodicals of different countries - according to the subtitle of Wales , Scotland and, in addition to them, Northern Ireland [6] [7] .
An extensive list of sources, as well as an alphabetical index [3] completes the work.
Critical Reaction
Tom Walker, a professor at Lincoln College at Oxford University, notes that Ballin’s range of publications is broader than the strictly literary journals that other well-known scholars of the Irish periodical like Frank Shovlin and Tom Clyde focus on, and the author approaches the subject as inherently works of a certain form , and not just the sum of the writers' self-expression [4] .
Ballina is criticized for a somewhat misleading title: this also applies to the subtitle, which does not mention Northern Ireland [4] , and the specified time period, taking into account the much wider scope in which the historical excursion is actually carried out [8] . Also, reviewers consider it insufficient that only 3 pages on average are devoted to individual publications, and therefore it is not possible to adequately reveal all the important aspects that the author is trying to cover [9] [10] .
At the same time, labor is called a valuable source of information [5] , reflecting the layer of the intellectual history of the region, until recently, by the time the work was published, it had largely fallen out of the scope of researchers [7] . The lecturer of linguistics and Irish poetry at the University of Paris III [11] Marivonne Boissot, as one of the important ideas conveyed in the book, highlights the undesirability of accepting even widespread beliefs as given (for example, Ballin's words that his work shows Ireland’s sufficient loyalty to periodicals contrary to the often voiced thought to the contrary) [3] .
Notes
- ↑ New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature . Springer Date of treatment March 17, 2019.
- ↑ Keynote speakers . IASIL 2008 . Universidade do Porto . Date of treatment March 13, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Boisseau, 2008 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Walker, 2009 , p. 395.
- ↑ 1 2 Fanning, 2009 , p. 104.
- ↑ Walker, 2009 , p. 395, 396.
- ↑ 1 2 Fanning, 2009 , p. 105.
- ↑ Fanning, 2009 , p. 105-106.
- ↑ Walker, 2009 , p. 396.
- ↑ Fanning, 2009 , p. 104, 105.
- ↑ Boisseau Maryvonne - Curriculum vitae (Fr.) . Linguistique, Langues, Parole . Université de Strasbourg . Date of treatment March 17, 2019.
Literature
- Boisseau, Maryvonne. Malcolm Ballin, Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972. Genre in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland [compte-rendu] (French) // Etudes irlandaises. - Presses Universitaires de Rennes , 2008 .-- Vol. 33 , n o 2 . - P. 177 . - ISSN 2259-8863 .
- Fanning, Bryan. Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland [Review] // Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. - 2009. - Spring ( vol. 98 , no. 389: Can We Govern Ourselves? ). - P. 103-105 . - ISSN 0039-3495 .
- Walker, Tom. Reviews - Literature - Irish periodical culture, 1937-1972: genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland (English) // Irish Studies Review. - 2009. - Vol. 17 , no. 3 . - P. 394-396 . - ISSN 1469-9303 . - DOI : 10.1080 / 09670880903115561 .