| Description |
1 online resource (529 p.) |
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Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Ser |
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Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Ser
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Out of Ireland -- Part I Heresies of Time and Space -- 1 Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism -- 2 Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future and Celtic Modernity -- 3 Waking from History: The Nation's Past and Future in FINNEGANS WAKE -- 4 W. B. Yeats's THE DREAMING OF THE BONES and the Limits of Global Modernism -- 5 Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border -- 6 Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism -- Part 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 -- 8 Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration and the Unfinished Business of Modernism -- 9 Ireland's Philatelic Modernism -- 10 Modernism Against / For the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Postwar Taiwan -- 11 Rage's Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde's Trivial Comedy -- Part III Aesthetic Heresies -- 12 Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism -- 13 Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- 14 The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland -- 15 'Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please': CRUISKEEN LAWN, Dada and the Blitz -- 16 Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? -- Part IV Heresies of Gender and Sexuality -- 17 The Irish Bachelor -- 18 'Purity, Piety, and Simplicity': Heretical Images of the Female, Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism -- 19 'Stolen fruit is best of all': The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane -- 20 'Stories Are a Different Kind of True': Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction -- 21 Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Part V Critical Heresies -- 22 'A form that accommodates the mess': Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett's HAPPY DAYS -- 23 Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction -- 24 Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity -- 25 Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Transformative Heresy of Joy -- 26 Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack's SOLAR BONES and W. B. Yeats's JOHN SHERMAN -- Index |
| Summary |
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
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English literature -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Art) -- Ireland
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Modernism (Christian theology) -- Ireland
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HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
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English literature -- Irish authors
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Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Christian theology)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Sian
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Mahaffey, Vicki
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| ISBN |
1474456707 |
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9781474456708 |
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