Ireland and the Problem of Information

Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication

AvDamien Keane

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Del 20 i serien Refiguring Modernism

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Beskrivning

Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism’s historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New York, Addis Ababa, Rome, Berlin, Geneva, and the world’s radio receivers, Ireland and the Problem of Information examines the pivotal mediations through which social knowledge was produced in the mid-twentieth century. Organized as a series of cross-fading case studies, the book argues that an expanded sphere of Irish cultural production should be read as much for what it indicates about practices of intermedial circulation and their consequences as for what it reveals about Irish writing around the time of the Second World War. In this way, it positions the “problem of information” as, first and foremost, an international predicament, but one with particular national implications for the Irish field.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-23
Mått:178 x 254 x 6 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Refiguring Modernism
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271064123

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Damien Keane is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo.

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“Ireland and the Problem of Information boldly reconstellates late modernism, wartime propaganda, radio and sound recording, and post-independence Irish culture. Damien Keane clears the period of received narratives about modernist formal innovation and the auratic voice. In their place he sets up a cultural field in which social knowledge is produced—and, increasingly, knows itself to be produced—through dispersed, often agonistic processes of mediation. Far from being a belated entrant into this moment, the Irish cultural field emerges here as its advance guard, ‘an early indicator of the antagonistic cooperation that has since come more generally to structure the cultural field of the “information age.”’ This is a rigorously researched book, reflecting Keane’s deep fascination with his subject.”—Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Problem of Information1. The Remediation of WavesThe Crisis of InternationalismEnsemble and MicrophoneAuratic Listener and Fascist Violin2. Dirty Work in New YorkThe Fourth PointGoing ForthBooks of the Hour3. The Irish Free ZoneSilenceStillnessSecrets4. Radio PagesOn the PageOn the AirOn the LineConclusion: Compression and Cross-fadeTexts for SomethingVinyl for NothingNotesBibliographyIndex