Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
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- ISBN 9781399548564
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
Maud Ellmann is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment, and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. She has also published widely on modern literature and literary theory, feminism, and deconstruction. Siân White is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University. She is the author of a range of published journal articles including ‘Spatial Politics/Poetics, Late Modernism and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September’, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 49.1 (2016): 27-50; ‘Ulysses, the Poetics of Tragedy, and A New Mimesis’, PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 51.4 (2015): 334-72; and ‘An Aesthetics of Unintimacy: Narrative Complexity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Style’, JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 45.1 (Winter 2015), 79-104. Vicki Mahaffey is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of Englishat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (Basil Blackwell, 2007); States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Reauthorizing Joyce (University Press of Florida, 1995).
