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Irish cosmopolitanism : location and dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett / Nels Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearson, Nels, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmopolitanism in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Ireland.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Joyce, James.
- Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
- Bowen, Elizabeth.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
- Summary:
- Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Of coast and cosmos: locating Irish expatriate modernism
- Ulysses, the sea, and the paradox of Irish internationalism
- "Forget! Remember!": Joyce's voices and the haunted cosmos
- Elizabeth Bowen's tenacious cosmopolitanism
- Crossings still: Irish interludes in Bowen's European novels
- "Haunt[ing] the waterfront": place and displacement in Echo's bones and les nouvelles
- Beckett, setting, and cosmopolitical philosophy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813060521
- 0813060524
- OCLC:
- 873006053
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