Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2021
504 pages
978-1-4744-5670-8 (ISBN)
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The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies - cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological - that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- List of 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 Unfi nished 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
