Irish modernisms : gaps, conjectures, possibilities / edited by Paul Fagan, John Greaney and Tamara Radak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagan, Paul, editor.

Greaney, John, editor.

Radak, Tamara, editor.

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Art).

Ireland.

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Modernism (Art)--Ireland.

Ireland--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Focusing on previously unexplored theoretical gaps, limitations, and fresh avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism, this book interrogates marginalised and neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism's responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, this book uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn, to rethink Irish modernism's organising themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death, mourning. At the same time, cutting-edge work from queer theory and gender studies draws urgent attention to the too often marginalised importance of women's writing and queer expression to the Irish avant-garde. Foregrounding Irish modernist interfaces between visual, literary, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, this book focuses on writers, artists and cultural figures such as Hannah Berman, Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Forrest Reid, Mary Davenport O'Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Edward Martyn, Jane Seosamh �O Torna, and M�airt�in �O Cadhain. At the same time, this volume asks how consideration of Irish modernism through the diverse genres and movements of these neglected and liminal figures compels us to reconsider the position of the "major (Irish) modernists" - such as Synge, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, O'Nolan, Beckett, MacGreevy, and Bowen - in this redrawn canon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Contested canons: Testing the limits of Irish modernism

1. Explaining ourselves: Hannah Berman, Jewish nationalism and Irish modernism / John Brannigan

2. A forgotten Irish modernist: Ethel Colburn Mayne / Elke D'Hoker

3. Melancholy modernism: The loss of the Irish woman poet 1930

50 / Lucy Collins

4. Death and the nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction / Maureen O'Connor

5. The languages of Irish modernism: Mairtin O Cadhain and Samuel Beckett / Eoin Byrne

pt. Two Corporeal texts, discursive bodies: Biopolitical Irish modernisms

6. Irish skin: The epidermiology of modernism / Barry Sheils

7. Irish modernism and Revivalism: A queer history? / Sean Hewitt

8. `Survival of the unfittest': Synge, Yeats and the rhetoric of health / Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston

9. Rhetorics of sacrifice: Sex, gender and the death penalty in James Joyce, W. B. Yeats and the 1916 generation / Katherine Ebury

10. `The ranks of respectability': Prostitution, citizenship and the Free State in the novels of Liam O'Flaherty / Laura Lovejoy

11. James Joyce and Samuel Beckett: Blind bards in the age of silent cinema / Cleo Hanaway-Oakley

pt. Three Minor/major modes: Intermedial Irish modernisms

12. Letters and weak theory in Irish modernism / Maebh Long

13. The machine in the (Holy) Ghost: Anti-scientific literature, genre fiction and Irish modernism, 1890

1940 / Jack Fennell

14. Mechanical animals, flying men and educated monkeys: Technology and modernity in the comic strips of Jack B. Yeats / Michael Connerty

15. `The funeral of one's past': Thomas MacGreevy as Ireland's modernist war poet / Daniel Curran

16. The full little jug: Flann O'Brien and the Irish public sphere / Catherine Flynn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Irish modernisms

ISBN:

9781350177369

1350177369

OCLC:

1255521704

Publisher Number:

99988737582