The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism /

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism / / Vicki Mahaffey, Maud Ellmann, Sian White.

Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxiesInvestigates connections between literary modernism and other cultural forms such as journalism and literature in Irish; design, cinema, and stained glass; sexual mores and food etiquette; maps, waterways,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
VerfasserIn:
Ellmann, Maud,
Mahaffey, Vicki,
White, Sian,
MitwirkendeR:
Boynton, T. J.,
Brown, Matthew,
Colangelo, Jeremy,
Connolly, Claire,
Conrad, Kathryn,
Darcy, Ailbhe,
Ellmann, Maud,
Falci, Eric,
Flynn, Catherine,
Gayle Backus, Margot,
Gibbons, Luke,
Huang, Shan-Yun,
Kennedy, Seán,
Madden, Ed,
Mahaffey, Vicki,
McKibben, Sarah E.,
O’Connor, Maureen,
Parsons, Cóilín,
Pearson, Nels,
Rich, Lauren,
Saint-Amour, Paul K.,
Sullivan, Kelly,
Townsend, Sarah L.,
Truran, Wendy J,
Ulin, Julieann Veronica,
Valente, Joseph,
White, Siân,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations 33 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Out of Ireland
  • Part I Heresies of Time and Space
  • 1 Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism
  • 2 Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future and Celtic Modernity
  • 3 Waking from History: The Nation’s Past and Future in FINNEGANS WAKE
  • 4 W. B. Yeats’s THE DREAMING OF THE BONES and the Limits of Global Modernism
  • 5 Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border
  • 6 Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism
  • Part II Heresies of Nationalism
  • 7 ‘A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit’: Precarious, Lost and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism
  • 8 Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration and the Unfinished Business of Modernism
  • 9 Ireland’s Philatelic Modernism
  • 10 Modernism Against / For the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Postwar Taiwan
  • 11 Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy
  • Part III Aesthetic Heresies
  • 12 Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism
  • 13 Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts Movement
  • 14 The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland
  • 15 ‘Put “Molotoff bread-basket” into Irish, please’: CRUISKEEN LAWN, Dada and the Blitz
  • 16 Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform?
  • Part IV Heresies of Gender and Sexuality
  • 17 The Irish Bachelor
  • 18 ‘Purity, Piety, and Simplicity’: Heretical Images of the Female, Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism
  • 19 ‘Stolen fruit is best of all’: The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane
  • 20 ‘Stories Are a Different Kind of True’: Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction
  • 21 Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • Part V Critical Heresies
  • 22 ‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS
  • 23 Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction
  • 24 Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity
  • 25 Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Transformative Heresy of Joy
  • 26 Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack’s SOLAR BONES and W. B. Yeats’s JOHN SHERMAN
  • Index

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