Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980: Volume 5 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Patten, Eve

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive to changes in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Sean O'Faolain, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien, and John McGahern.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108570749
• Artikelnr.: 62736474

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Eve Patten; Part I. After the War: Ideologies in Transition:
1. The Second World War and its literary legacies Guy Woodward; 2. Outside
the whale: Seán O'Faoláin and the European public intellectual Brad Kent;
3. Irish writers and Europe Aidan O'Malley; 4. Becoming a Republic: Irish
writing in transition Nicholas Allen; Part II. Genres in Transition: 5.
Intermodernism and the middlebrow in Irish writing John Brannigan; 6.
Transitional life writing: Frank O'Connor and the autobiographical
tradition Muireann Leech; 7. Somehow it is not the same: Irish theatre and
transition Chris Morash; 8. Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and the
literature of absurdity David Wheatley; Part III. Sex, Politics and
Literary Protest: 9. Censorship, law and literature Eibhear Walshe; 10.
Sex, dissent and Irish fiction: reading John McGahern Frank Shovlin; 11.
History, memory and protest in Irish theatre Emilie Pine; 12. Violence,
politics and the poetry of the troubles Rosie Lavan; Part IV. Identities
and Connections: 13. State, space and experiment in Irish language prose
writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 14. Anglo-Ireland: the big house novel in
transition Heather Ingman; 15. American-Irish literary relations Ellen
McWilliams; 16. 'Home rule in our literature': Irish-British poetic
relations Tom Walker; Part V. Retrospective Frameworks: Criticism in
Transition: 17. Literary biography in transition Paul Delaney; 18.
Publishing, Penguin and Irish writing Paul Rooney; 19. Curriculum to canon:
Irish writing and education Margaret Kelleher; 20. Critics, criticism and
the formation of an Irish literary canon Shaun Richards.