Maintaining a Place
Conditions of Metaphor in Modern American Literature
Published on 31. October 2014
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-906359-84-3 (ISBN)
Description
This international collection of critical and creative work offers compelling responses to the specifics of 'tradition' and 'place' in the face of the formal and thematic challenges of the modern at particular moments in the aesthetic development of American literature. Maintaining a Place operates also as a way of thinking about the legacy of key figures within Irish cultural debates about America in honouring an esteemed colleague, Ron Callan, for his unique contribution to the field of American Studies in Ireland. Pointing to the ongoing transatlantic influence exerted by the American poetic tradition on contemporary writers, and responding to current developments in literary studies by meshing the field's critical and creative strains the collection includes new poetry by established poets working in Ireland and the US. This volume will appeal to all readers with an interest in modern American literature and its continuing influence on transatlantic thinking and creative practices.
Reviews / Votes
'For native work in verse, fiction or criticism... we mean to maintain a place, insisting on that which we have not found insisted upon before, the essential contact between words and the locality that breeds them, in this case America' (William Carlos Williams);'Rich in content, Maintaining a Place is a wonderful exploration for students of English or just fans of American literature. Well crafted, the volume brings the reader on a journey that responds to current developments in literary studies.' UCD Today, Spring 2015More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-906359-84-3 (9781906359843)
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Persons
MARIA STUART is lecturer in American Literature at UCD. Her main interests are in nineteenth-century American Literature, African American Literature and the cross fertilisation of Irish and American poetic concerns. Her current publications focus on the work of Emily Dickinson. She is editor (with Domhnall Mitchell) of The International Reception of Emily Dickinson (Continuum Reception Studies, 2009). FIONNGHUALA SWEENEY is senior lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University. Her research concentrates on African American and Caribbean literature and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, literary connections between Ireland and the Black Atlantic, and Afromodernism. FIONNUALA DILLANE is Llcturer in nineteenth-century literature at UCD with research interests in Victorian authorship and print cultures, Genre history and memory studies. Recent work includes Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (Cambridge University Press, 2013), joint winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, 2014.
Content
Contributors; Maria Stuart, Fionnghuala Sweeney, Fionnuala Dillane, and John Brannigan: Introduction; Adam Kelly: To Reconcile the People and the Stones: Ron Callan, William Carlos Williams, and Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear; Maria Stuart: The Poetics of Disfluency: Emerson and Dickinson; Harry Clifton: The Dry-Souled Man (Yvor Winters 1900-68); J. C. C. Mays: Making it New: Coleridge, Pound, and Some 'New' Irish Poets; Stephen Wilson: The Burden of Records: Ezra Pound's Problematic Legacy; Peggy O'Brien: Permission to Burn (from 'Neighbors'); Lee M. Jenkins: 'the difference between Pluto and Plato': D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and American Modernism; Stephen Matterson: Three beginnings: William Carlos Williams and In the American Grain; Michael Hinds: Anachronistic?: Sappho and William Carlos Williams Against the Clock; Nerys Wiliams: In Which; Philip McGowan: Reading Elizabeth Bishop's 'Artifact of [Words]'; Philip Coleman: 'Seeking quiddity': Seeing Things in the Poetry of Carl Rakosi; Ana Nunes: Ellen Gallagher's Portraits of the Black Atlantic; Frank McGuinness: The Mask and The Martyr: Lorraine Hansberry and Sean O'Casey; Declan Kiberd: Afterword; Bibliography; Index.