Distance of Irish Modernism

Memory, Narrative, Representation

AvJohn Greaney

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, Flann O’Brien and Kate O’Brien, this book analyses how and if the complex representational strategies of modernist fictions provide a window on historical events and realities. Greaney deploys close reading, formal analysis, narratology and philosophical accounts of literature alongside historicist and materialist approaches, as well as postcolonial and world literature paradigms, to examine how modernist texts engage the cultural memories they supposedly transmit. Emphasizing the proximities and the distances between modernist aesthetic practice and the history of modernity in Ireland and beyond, this book enables a new model for narrating Irish modernism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-14
Mått:162 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350125261

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John Greaney is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021). His work has been published in Textual Practice, Irish Studies Review and Derrida Today, amongst other venues.

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With this wonderful book, John Greaney brilliantly demonstrates that if a little deconstruction turns away from history, a lot brings us back to the layered histories of Ireland. In a series of masterful analyses combining theoretical sophistication and contextual accuracy, Greaney reframes Irish modernism. Rejecting the historicist flattening of texts taken as unambiguous documents of postcolonialism, he highlights new capacities for deviance, resistance and dehiscence, taking us to 'giddy heights linking unfathomable abysses' marked by verticality and untranslatability.

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Vicinities of Irish ModernismChapter 1: Samuel Beckett and the Contexts of ModernismChapter 2: Chapter Two: Brian, Flann, Myles and the Origins of Irish ModernismChapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen’s Modernist HistoryChapter 4: Kate O’Brien’s ‘Flawed’ ModernismChapter 5: John McGahern and the Limits of Irish ModernismEpilogue Works Cited