The Routledge companion to twenty-first century Irish writing / edited by Anne Fogarty and Eugene O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fogarty, Anne, 1958- editor.

O'Brien, Eugene, 1958- editor..

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series.

Routledge Literature Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Ireland--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing - The New and the Now

Part I Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance

Chapter 1 Counterfactual Geographies: Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

Chapter 2 Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Chapter 3 Four Recent Irish-Language Novels, A Century after Pearse

Chapter 4 Conversational Ethics and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Family Novel: Anne Enright's The Green Road (2015) and Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island (2022)

Chapter 5 Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First-Century Irish Young Adult Fiction

Chapter 6 The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors

Chapter 7 Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023)

Chapter 8 The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooney's Novels: Between Self and Other

Chapter 9 'Feeling Catty': Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women Writers

Chapter 10 Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nithy Kasa

Part II A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative

Chapter 11 Twenty-First-Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran Lock

Chapter 12 'The Art of "Yielding"': Contemporary Irish Ecopoetics

Chapter 13 Wilful Renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Aifric Mac Aodha and Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

Chapter 14 Micheal O'Siadhail: Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot Voices

Chapter 15 Queer Poetry

Chapter 16 'The Art of Losing': Ailbhe Darcy's Ekphrastic Touch.

Chapter 17 'Echo Is Dumb': Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry

Chapter 18 'Memory Followed You / On the Water': Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry

Chapter 19 Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Abbey Theatre's Adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger (2020)

Part III Theatrical Engagements and Critiques

Chapter 20 THISISPOPBABY: Glorious Energy, Grief and the Twenty-First-Century Craic Tax

Chapter 21 Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic Crash

Chapter 22 Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and Performance

Chapter 23 Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre Company

Chapter 24 Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by Brokentalkers

Chapter 25 Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre

Chapter 26 The Rise of Ireland's Campus Novel

Part IV New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production

Chapter 27 Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 28 The Personal Essay

Chapter 29 Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the Scope

Chapter 30 Contemporary Irish Poetry off the Page

Chapter 31 Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry

Chapter 32 Changing Irish Identity: The Presence of Black Writing in Contemporary Ireland

Chapter 33 The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short Fiction

Chapter 34 The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First-Century Irish Literary Magazines

Chapter 35 Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish Writing

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781040256084

1040256082

9781040255988

1040255981

9781003305392

1003305393

OCLC:

1467880066