Iceland - Ireland : : memory, literature, culture on the Atlantic periphery /

Iceland - Ireland : : memory, literature, culture on the Atlantic periphery / / edited by Fionnuala Dillane, Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir.

Iceland and Ireland, two North-Atlantic islands on the periphery or Europe, share a long history that reaches back to the ninth century. Direct contact between the islands has ebbed and flowed like their shared Atlantic tides over the subsequent millennium, with long blanks and periods of apparently...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
TeilnehmendeR:
Dillane, Fionnuala,
Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
Physical Description:1 online resource (221 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the Text
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Iceland - Ireland Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery
  • Fionnuala Dillane and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
  • part 1
  • Landscapes of Crisis: Islands on the Edge
  • 2 Neoliberal Memory and the Market Financialization, Algorithmic Governmentality and Boom Fiction in Iceland and Ireland
  • Sharae Deckard
  • 3 Precarious States of Being The 2008 Financial Crisis in Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir's Siglingin um síkin (2012) and Conor O'Callaghan's Nothing on Earth (2016)
  • Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir
  • 4 Warnings from the Water's Edge Deep Time and Narrative Excess in Arnaldur Indriðason's Strange Shores and Tana French's Broken Harbour
  • Fionnuala Dillane
  • 5 Trauma and Eco-Memory in Sjón's The Blue Fox (2003), Eimear McBride's A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing (2013) and Sara Baume's A Line Made by Walking (2017)
  • Anne Fogarty
  • part 2
  • Politics of Island Imaginaries
  • 6 'In this corner of peace in a world of trouble' The Literature of Islands of the North-East Atlantic in the Second World War
  • John Brannigan
  • 7 Islands and War Remembering the Allied Occupation in Iceland
  • Daisy Neijmann
  • 8 'Rise, thou youthful flag of Iceland!' Moonstone and Sjón's Queer Anti-Patriotism
  • Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir
  • part 3
  • Framing Heritage: Mobilizing Memory and Forgetting
  • 9 Gaelic Whispers What the Icelanders Remembered of Their Irish Past
  • Gísli Sigurðsson
  • 10 Hurling, knattleikr and the Global Tradition of Stick-and-Ball Play
  • Paul Rouse
  • 11 Trial Pieces Reading the Viking Past in Contemporary Irish Poetry
  • Lucy Collins
  • Index.

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