READING IN THE DARK: IRISH LITERARY IDENTITY
READING IN THE DARK: IRISH LITERARY IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: The concept of literary identity is here used to emphasize the ways in which the author of a literary work can use the storage of the traditional techniques at his disposal to symbolically illuminate the social, historical, cultural and intellectual phenomena of his time. These techniques, which are part of the author’s art, become the means of constructing his literary identity. The result is the profound expression of an individual experience of a certain social and cultural history. The novel “Reading in the Dark” (1996) by Seamus Deane illustrates such an experience.

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