Is there Hiberno-English on them?: Hiberno-English in Modern Irish Literature: The Use of Dialect in Joyce, OBrien, Shaw and Friel

This book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: James Joyce, Flann OBrien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel.

Irish writers of this period faced the challenge of creating a literature in English that would be independent of the English literary tradition. The use of Hiberno-English is both a literary device and a practice that bears on the question of an Irish national identity. This work examines above all the uses of Hiberno-English as a literary device. One of the potential functions of a literary text is to call into question received ideas, and the texts discussed here do this with the help of Hiberno-English.

Here, this dialect stands as a form of authenticity which is questioned and through which received ideas are criticised. This book also contains a large corpus whose primary purpose is to record the abundance of Hiberno-English in the works under review. The corpus provides a gloss and outlines the grammatical and phonetic features of Hiberno-English.

Book Details

• Author: Gisela Zingg
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• eBook ISBN: 9783035105926, 3035105928
• Print ISBN: 9783034314237, 303431423X