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| Author | : Gregory Castle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107176727 |
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
| Author | : Malcolm Sen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 824 |
| Release | : 2022-07-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108802591 |
From Gaelic annals and medieval poetry to contemporary Irish literature, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment examines the connections between the Irish environment and Irish literary culture. Themes such as Ireland's island ecology, the ecological history of colonial-era plantation and deforestation, the Great Famine, cultural attitudes towards animals and towards the land, the postcolonial politics of food and energy generation, and the Covid-19 pandemic - this book shows how these factors determine not only a history of the Irish environment but also provide fresh perspectives from which to understand and analyze Irish literature. An international team of contributors provides a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature to show how the literary has always been deeply engaged with environmental questions in Ireland, a crucial new perspective in an age of climate crisis. A History of Irish Literature and the Environment reveals the socio-cultural, racial, and gendered aspects embedded in questions of the Irish environment.
| Author | : Joseph N. Cleary |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107031419 |
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
| Author | : Zan Cammack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2021-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781949979763 |
Because gramophonic technology grew up alongside Ireland's progressively more outspoken and violent struggles for political autonomy and national stability, Irish Modernism inherently links the gramophone to representations of these dramatic cultural upheavals. Many key works of Irish literary modernism--like those by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O'Casey--depend upon the gramophone for their ability to record Irish cultural traumas both symbolically and literally during one of the country's most fraught developmental eras. In each work the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. In each work, too, the object seems virtually self-placed--less an aesthetic device than a "thing" belonging primordially to the text. The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. Thus, the gramophone points to a deeper connection between object and culture than we perceive if we consider it as only an image, enhancement, or instrument. This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.
| Author | : Michael Rubenstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 9780268040307 |
Public Works looks at a new dimension of a specifically Irish modernism, arguing for the vital importance of infrastructure, specifically electricity, water, and gas.
| Author | : David Lloyd |
| Publisher | : Field Day Publications |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 094675540X |
| Author | : C. Culleton |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2009-01-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781349376988 |
This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.
| Author | : Ailbhe Darcy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 853 |
| Release | : 2021-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108802702 |
A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women's poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.
| Author | : Cóilín Parsons |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2016-04-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191080365 |
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.
