The Edinburgh companion to Irish modernism / edited by Maud Ellmann, Siân White and Vicki Mahaffey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellmann, Maud, 1954- editor.

White, Siân Elin, editor.

Mahaffey, Vicki, editor.

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Christian theology).

Modernism (Art).

English literature--Irish authors.

Ireland.

English literature--Irish authors--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Modernism (Art)--Ireland.

Modernism (Christian theology)--Ireland.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 484 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Irish modernism

Irish modernism

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies - cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological - that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Heresies of Time and Space

1. Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism / Paul K. Saint-Amour

2. Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future and Celtic Modernity / Luke Gibbons

3. Waking from History: The Nation's Past and Future in Finnegans Wake / Jeremy Colangelo

4. W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism / Coilin Parsons

5. Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border / Maud Ellmann

6. Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism / Nels Pearson

pt. 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 / Margot Gayle Backus

8. Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration and the Unfinished Business of Modernism / Sarah L. Townsend

9. Ireland's Philatelic Modernism / Julieann Veronica Ulin

10. Modernism Against / For the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Postwar Taiwan / Shan-Yun Huang

11. Rage's Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde's Trivial Comedy / Kathryn Conrad

pt. III Aesthetic Heresies

12. Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism / Eric Falci

13. Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Kelly Sullivan

14. The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland / Matthew Brown

15. `Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please': Cruiskeen Lawn, Dada and the Blitz / Catherine Flynn

16. Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? / Vicki Mahaffey

pt. IV Heresies of Gender and Sexuality

17. The Irish Bachelor / Ed Madden

18. `Purity, Piety, and Simplicity': Heretical Images of the Female Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism / T. J. Boynton

19. `Stolen fruit is best of all': The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane / Lauren Rich

20. `Stories Are a Different Kind of True': Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction / Sian White

21. Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain / Ailbhe Darcy

pt. V Critical Heresies

22. `A form that accommodates the mess': Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett's Happy Days / Joseph Valente

23. Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction / Maureen O'Connor

24. Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity / Sarah E. McKibben

25. Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Transformative Heresy of Joy / Wendy J. Truran

26. Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack's Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats's John Sherman / Claire Connolly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781474456692

1474456693

OCLC:

1246519866

Publisher Number:

99988112598