Author: Gregory CastlePublisher:
ISBN: 1107176727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
A History of Irish Modernism
Author: Gregory CastlePublisher:
ISBN: 1107176727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
A history of Irish modernism
Author: Gregory CastlePublisher:
ISBN: 9781316629932
Category : Arts, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting, music, radio, and architecture. Each chapter considers a particular aspect of Irish culture and reflects on its contribution to modernism at large. In addition to new research on Irish Revival and cultural nationalism, which places them squarely in the modernist arena, chapters offer transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives that place Irish cultural production in new contexts. At the same time, the historical standpoint adopted in each chapter enables our contributors to examine how modernist practices developed across geographical and temporal distances. A History of Irish Modernism thus attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland--driven by political as well as artistic concerns--even as it embodies aesthetic principles that are the hallmark of modernism in Europe, the Americas and beyond.
Ireland’s Gramophones
Author: Zan CammackPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1949979776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
Author: Joe ClearyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
Terror and Irish Modernism
Author: Jim HansenPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438428340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.
Public Works
Author: Michael RubensteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780268040307
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Public Works looks at a new dimension of a specifically Irish modernism, arguing for the vital importance of infrastructure, specifically electricity, water, and gas.
Irish Times
Author: David LloydPublisher: Field Day Publications
ISBN: 094675540X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
Author: Malcolm SenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108802591
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
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.
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
Author: Cóilín ParsonsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
A History of Irish Women's Poetry
Author: Ailbhe DarcyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108802702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
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.