Counterpoetics of Modernity
On Irish Poetry and Modernism
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2022
232 pages
978-1-4744-8983-6 (ISBN)
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Provides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Permissions
- Introduction: Counterpoetics and Colonial Modernity
- Part I: Specters of Modernity
- 1. Overture. The Burden of Discontinuity: Criticism, Colonialism, and Anti-Modernism
- 2. Crossing Over: On James Clarence Mangan's "Spirits Everywhere"
- 3. 1913-1916-1919: Yeats's Dates
- 4. "To Live Surrounded by a White Song," or, The Sublimation of Race in Experiment: On the Margins of Susan Howe
- Part II: New Things That Have Happened
- 5. New Things That Have Happened: Forms of Irish Poetry
- 6. Intricate Walking: Scully's Livelihood
- 7. Rome's Wreck: Joyce's Baroque
- Conclusion. Conduits for the Humane: Walsh's Optic Verve
- Appendix to Chapter 2: Crossing Over
- Bibliography
- Index
