Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-05
Mått:164 x 242 x 25 mm
Vikt:628 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198857877

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Nicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Endowed Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia. A native of Belfast, he has published several books on Ireland and its literature, has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council.

Recensioner i media

In sum, this new study is excellently written, capacious in scope, thoroughly researched, and original in approach. It leaves some open strands of argument--from the role of Ireland in the racial dynamics of maritime empire to the potential linkages between Scottish and Irish writing in a devolved archipelago--that others will pick up, tracing their analysis back to Allen's watershed effort. All of which will be part of the lasting impact on Irish, ecocritical, modernist, and contemporary literary studies that Ireland, Literature and the Coast is likely to have.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1: The Maritime Yeats 2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands 3: Coastal Joyce 4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks 5: At the Ebb Tide: Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland 6: Heaney Offshore 7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea 8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction 9: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry, and Water 10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright 11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift 12: Into the Archipelago Conclusion

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Archipelago

Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley, Nicholas Allen, Fiona Stafford