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Author Lynch, Gay.

Title Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (251 pages)
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Summary Apocryphal and Literary Influences in Galway Disaporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations. This book ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
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Subject Lynch, Gay. Unsettled.
Lynch family.
Lynch family.
Australian literature -- History and criticism.
Australian literature.
Collective memory.
Collective memory.
Irish in literature.
Irish in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Intertextuality.
Intertextuality.
Irish -- Australia -- Historiography.
Irish.
Australia.
Historiography.
Galway (Ireland : County) -- Emigration and immigration.
Australia -- Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lynch, Gay. Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443825603
ISBN 9781443826105 (electronic book)
1443826103 (electronic book)
9781443825603 (hardback)
1443825603 (hardback)
1283141833
9781283141833
Standard No. 9786613141835