Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000588309
• Artikelnr.: 64097537

Autorenporträt

Michaela Schrage-Früh is lecturer in German at NUI Galway. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has authored numerous articles and co-edited several collections on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture. Tony Tracy is lecturer in Film and Media Studies at NUI Galway. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. He has authored numerous articles and co-edited a number of collections including Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture: Tiger Tales (2014) and John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture


Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy

DRAMA


2. Taking the "Black Stick": Ageing Husbands and Fathers in the Plays of J. M. Synge and Teresa Deevy


Mária Kurdi


3. "Are all the monks old men?" Ageing and the Male Monastic Community in Brian Friel's The Enemy Within


Giovanna Tallone


4. Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and Ageing Masculinities in Crisis


Ciara L. Murphy

POETRY


5. Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities, and Ageing in Samuel Beckett's Early Poetry Collection Echo's Bones




Heike Hartung


6. Masculinity, Ageing, and Midlife Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Paul Durcan


Anne Karhio


7. Not Sailing to Byzantium: Aged Masculinities and Latour's Matters of Concern in the Late Works of Irish Male Poets


Katarzyna Ostalska

FICTION


8. "That the Youth May Throw Us Aside": Fatherhood, Ageing Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction


Loic Wright


9. Stuck in the Old Times: A Male-character Analysis on Three Irish Novels Through Corpus Stylistics


Cassandra S. Tully


10. Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's The Sea, Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture and Anne Griffin's When All is Said


Michaela Schrage-Früh


11. "Caught suddenly by the land shifting": Ageing Masculinity and Rural Ireland in Recent Irish Short Fiction


Orlaith Darling


12. "A bridge to nowhere": Arrested Development, Trauma, Liminality, and the Ageing Irish Exile in Bernard MacLaverty's Midwinter Break


Clare Brannigan


13. "Shades of Masculinities": Midlife and Caring Masculinity in Mike McCormack's Solar Bones




Brenda O'Connell


14. Colm Tóibín and Henry James: Portrait of an Ageing Master


Heather Ingman

VISUAL CULTURE


15. Seán Keating's Ireland - the Land of Old Men


Katarzyna Kociolek


16. Ageing Masculinities and Irish Traditional Music on Screen


Verena Commins and Méabh Ní Fhuartháin


17. Changing the Picture: Older Men's Responses to Media Representations of Ageing in an Irish Context

Margaret O'Neill and Áine Ní Léime