The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism /

Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxiesInvestigates connections between literary modernism and other cultural forms such as journalism and literature in Irish; design, cinema, and stained glass; sexual mores and food etiquette; maps, waterways,...

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Main Authors: Ellmann, Maud (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Mahaffey, Vicki (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), White, Sian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Boynton, T. J. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Brown, Matthew (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Colangelo, Jeremy (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Connolly, Claire (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Conrad, Kathryn (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Darcy, Ailbhe (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Falci, Eric (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Flynn, Catherine (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Gayle Backus, Margot (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Gibbons, Luke (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Huang, Shan-Yun (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Kennedy, Sean (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Madden, Ed (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), McKibben, Sarah E. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), O'Connor, Maureen (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Parsons, Cóilín (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Pearson, Nels (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Rich, Lauren (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Saint-Amour, Paul K. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Sullivan, Kelly (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Townsend, Sarah L. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Truran, Wendy J (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Ulin, Julieann Veronica (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Valente, Joseph (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), White, Siân (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
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Table of 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