| ISBN |
9781107655812 (paperback) |
| Description |
xl, 240 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Intellectual and aesthetic influences Jean-Michel Rabate; 2. European, American, and imperial conjectures Joe Cleary; 3. The Irish revival and modernism Ronan McDonald; 4. Style and idiom Barry McCrea; 5. W. B. Yeats and modernist poetry Laura O'Connor; 6. James Joyce and the mutations of the modernist novel Emer Nolan; 7. Modernist experiments in Irish theatre Ben Levitas; 8. Visual modernisms Luke Gibbons; 9. Women and modernism Anne Fogarty; 10. Irish language modernisms Louis de Paor; 11. Irish American modernisms Gregory Dobbins; 12. Critical receptions of literary modernism Enda Duffy; 13. Irish Modernist Imaginaries Michael Valdez Moses. |
| Summary |
"The story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists not only helped to create a distinctive nationalist literature but also changed the face of European and anglophone culture. This Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction and the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, as well as late modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Maírtin O' Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all appear here. Significantly, however, this volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish-language modernism and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Alt Author |
Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.)
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