[PDF] Irish Modernism eBook

Author : Kathryn Conrad
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815654480

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Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson. With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers’ engagement with innovations in science and technology. Taken together, the fifteen original essays in Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism map a new literary landscape of Ireland in the twentieth century. By focusing on writers’ often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns between revivalists, modernists, and late modernists that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.

Author : Gregory Castle
Publisher :
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107176727

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This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Author : Edwina Keown
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Irish
ISBN : 9783039118946

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An examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. This collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself.--

Author : C. Culleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230617190

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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 : Michael Rubenstein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780268040307

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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 : L. Lanigan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1137378204

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Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time.

Author : Zan Cammack
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1949979776

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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 : Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107031419

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This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

Author : Paige Reynolds
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1783085746

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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.

Author : John Greaney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135012527X

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The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, Flann O'Brien and Kate O'Brien, this book analyses how and if the complex representational strategies of modernist fictions provide a window on historical events and realities. Greaney deploys close reading, formal analysis, narratology and philosophical accounts of literature alongside historicist and materialist approaches, as well as postcolonial and world literature paradigms, to examine how modernist texts engage the cultural memories they supposedly transmit. Emphasizing the proximities and the distances between modernist aesthetic practice and the history of modernity in Ireland and beyond, this book enables a new model for narrating Irish modernism.