Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism
Title | Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Conrad |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2019-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0815654480 |
Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson. With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers’ engagement with innovations in science and technology. Taken together, the fifteen original essays in Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism map a new literary landscape of Ireland in the twentieth century. By focusing on writers’ often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns between revivalists, modernists, and late modernists that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.
A History of Irish Modernism
Title | A History of Irish Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Castle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2019-01-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107176727 |
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
Irish Modernism
Title | Irish Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Edwina Keown |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art, Irish |
ISBN | 9783039118946 |
An examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. This collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself.--
Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive
Title | Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive PDF eBook |
Author | C. Culleton |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2008-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230617190 |
This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.
Public Works
Title | Public Works PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rubenstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780268040307 |
Public Works looks at a new dimension of a specifically Irish modernism, arguing for the vital importance of infrastructure, specifically electricity, water, and gas.
James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism
Title | James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | L. Lanigan |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-08-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1137378204 |
Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time.
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Title | Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Paige Reynolds |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2016-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783085746 |
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.