Writing Modern Ireland

by Catherine E Paul (Editor)

Overview

"Bringing together leading scholars of modern and contemporary literature, this book examines the ways in which modernization has shaped Irish identity over the course of the past century."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989082693
Publisher:	Bolero Books
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Ireland in the Arts and Humanities Lup
Pages:	279
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Catherine E. Paul is Professor of Modernism at Clemson University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Catherine E. Paul - Writing Modern Ireland

Essays
Ronald Schuchard - Yeats in Extremis
Ed Madden - "Here, of all places": Geographies of Sexual and Gender Identity in Keith Ridgway's The Long Falling
Michael J. Sidnell - Beckett's Discovery of Theater: Human Wishes, and the Dramaturgical Contexts of Eleutheria
Wim Van Mierlo - "I have met you too late": James Joyce, W. B. Yeats and the Making of Chamber Music
Liam Harte - The Politics of Pity in Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way
Margaret Mills Harper - Flesh and Bones: Anne Enright's The Gathering
Alexandra Poulain - "Westward ho!": The Only Jealousy of Emer, From Noh to Tragedy
Ken Monteith - Enabling Emer, Disabling the Sidhe: W. B. Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer
Eamonn Wall - The Use of Memory: Michael Coady's All Souls
John Dennison - "To construct something upon which to rejoice": Seamus Heaney's Prose Revisions
Thomas Dillon Redshaw - Remains and Removals: Th e Cuala Press Revival, 1969-1989
Jonathan Allison - "The Old Moon-Phaser": Yeats, Auden, and MacNeice
Michael Cade-Stewart - A Satyric Paradise: Th e Form of W. B. Yeats's "News for the Delphic Oracle"
Wanda Balzano - Abroad and at Home: The Question of the Foreigner in Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle
Jeanette Shumaker - The Deathly Conformity of Irish Women: Novels by Mary O'Donnell and Susan Knight
Rand Brandes - Mercury in Taurus: W. B. Yeats and Ted Hughes
Wayne K. Chapman - "Notes Chirruping Answer": Language as Music in James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
Hedwig Schwall - Allegories of Writing: Figurations of Narcissus and Echo in W. B. Yeats's Work
Jefferson Holdridge - "Halved Globe, Slowly Turning": Editing Irish Poetry in America

Contributors