Ireland's gramophones : material culture, memory, and trauma in Irish modernism / Zan Cammack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cammack, Zan, author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phonograph in literature.

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

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Collective memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clemson, SC : Clemson University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Irish Gramophone

1. Gramophonic Trauma: Shattered Narratives and Undead Oralities

2. Gramophonic Gendering: Women, Phonographysteria, and the Political Machine

3. Gramophonic Violence: The Gramophones of the Irish Revolution

4. Gramophonic Strain: Residual Tension in Post-War Literature

Coda: Gramophonic Echoes

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Published in association with Liverpool University Press.

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63804-030-3

1-80085-274-6

1-949979-77-6

OCLC:

1256593752