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This book focuses on previously unexplored gaps, limitations and avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical account of this conceptual field. Foregrounding interfaces between literary, visual, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, these essays introduce previously peripheral writers, artists and cultural figures to debates about Irish modernism: Hannah Berman, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Freda Laughton, Rhoda Coghill, Elizabeth Bowen, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Joseph Plunkett, Liam O'Flaherty, Edward Martyn, Jane Barlow, Seosamh Ó Torna, Jack B. Yeats and Brian O'Nolan all feature here to interrogate the term's implications.
Probing Irish modernism's responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities uses diverse paradigms, including weak theory, biopolitics, posthumanism and the nonhuman turn, to rethink Irish modernism's organising themes: the material body, language, mediality, canonicity, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death, mourning. Across the volume, cutting-edge work from queer theory and gender studies draws urgent attention to the too-often marginalized importance of women's writing and queer expression to the Irish avant-garde, while critical reappraisals of the coordinates of race and national history compel us to ask not only where and when Irish modernism occurred, but also whose modernism it was?
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Irish Modernisms in the Plural
Paul Fagan (Salzburg University, 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 Modernism
John Brannigan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
2. A Forgotten Irish Modernist: Ethel Colburn Mayne
Elke D'hoker (KU Leuven, Belgium)
3. Melancholy Modernism: The Loss of the Irish Woman Poet 1930-1950
Lucy Collins (University College Dublin, Ireland)
4. Death and the Nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction
Maureen O'Connor (University College Cork, Ireland)
5. The Languages of Irish Modernism: Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Samuel Beckett
Eoin Byrne (NUI Galway, Ireland)
Part 2
Corporeal Texts, Discursive Bodies: Biopolitical Irish Modernisms
6. Irish Skin: The Epidermiology of Modernism
Barry Sheils (Durham University, UK)
7. Irish Modernism and Revivalism: A Queer History?
Seán Hewitt (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
8. 'Survival of the Unfittest': Synge, Yeats and the Rhetoric of Health
Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (University of Oxford, UK)
9. Rhetorics of Sacrifice: Sex, Gender and the Death Penalty in James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and the 1916 Generation
Katherine Ebury (Sheffield University, UK)
10. 'The ranks of respectability': Prostitution, Citizenship & the Free State in the Novels of Liam O'Flaherty
Laura Lovejoy (University College Cork, Ireland)
11. James Joyce and Samuel Beckett: Blind Bards in the Age of Silent Cinema
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Bristol University, UK)
Part 3
Minor/Major Forms: Intermedial Irish Modernisms
12. Letters and Weak Theory in Irish Modernism
Maebh Long (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
13. The Machine in the (Holy) Ghost: Anti-Science Literature, Genre Fiction and Irish Modernism, 1890-1940
Jack Fennell (University of Limerick, Ireland)
14. Mechanical Animals, Flying Men and Educated Monkeys: Technology & Modernity in the Comic Strips of Jack B. Yeats
Michael Connerty (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland)
15. 'the funeral of one's past': Thomas MacGreevy as Ireland's Modernist War Poet
Daniel Curran (Maynooth University, Ireland)
16. The Full Little Jug: Flann O'Brien and the Irish Public Sphere
Catherine Flynn (UC, Berkeley, USA)
Bibliography
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