Irish Modernisms : Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities /: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Fagan, John Greaney, Tamara Radak.
• Editors: Fagan, Paul; Greaney, John; Radak, Tamara
• Contents: ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Irish Modernisms in the PluralPaul Fagan (University of Vienna, Austria), John Greaney (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Tamara Radak (University of Vienna, Austria)Part 1 Contested Canons: Testing the Limits of Irish Modernism 1. Explaining Ourselves: Hannah Berman, Jewish Nationalism and Irish ModernismJohn Brannigan (University College Dublin, Ireland) 2. A Forgotten Irish Modernist: Ethel Colburn MayneElke D'hoker (KU Leuven, Belgium)3. Melancholy Modernism: The Loss of the Irish Woman Poet 1930–1950Lucy Collins (University College Dublin, Ireland)4. Death and the Nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's FictionMaureen O'Connor (University College Cork, Ireland)5. The Languages of Irish Modernism: Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Samuel BeckettEoin Byrne (NUI Galway, Ireland)Part 2 Corporeal Texts, Discursive Bodies: Biopolitical Irish Modernisms 6. Irish Skin: The Epidermiology of ModernismBarry Sheils (Durham University, UK)7. Irish Modernism: A Queer HistorySeán Hewitt (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)8. Rhetorics of Health: Synge, Yeats and the Philosophy of Irish IrelandLloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (University of Oxford, UK)9. Rhetorics of Sacrifice: Sex, Gender and the Death Penalty in the 1916 GenerationKatherine Ebury (Sheffield University, UK)10. 'The ranks of respectability': Prostitution, Citizenship & the Free State in the Novels of Liam O'FlahertyLaura Lovejoy (University College Cork, Ireland)11. Joyce and Beckett: Blind Bards in the Age of CinemaCleo-Hanaway Oakley (Bristol University, UK)Part 3 Minor/Major Forms: Intermedial Irish Modernisms12. Letters and Weak Theory in Irish ModernismMaebh Long (University of Waikato, New Zealand)13. The Machine in the (Holy) Ghost: Anti-Science Literature, Genre Fiction and Irish ModernismJack Fennell (University of Limerick, Ireland)14. Mechanical Animals, Flying Men and Educated Monkeys: Technology & Modernity in the Comic Strips of Jack B. YeatsMichael Connerty (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland)15. 'the funeral of one's past': Thomas MacGreevy as Ireland's Modernist War PoetDaniel Curran (Maynooth University, Ireland)16. The Full Little Jug: Flann O'Brien and a New Irish Public DiscourseCatherine Flynn (UC, Berkeley, USA)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350177383; 1350177385
• Related ISBNs: 9781350177369
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