Ireland’s Gramophones

Material Culture, Memory, and Trauma in Irish Modernism

AvZan Cammack

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Because gramophonic technology grew up alongside Ireland’s progressively more outspoken and violent struggles for political autonomy and national stability, Irish Modernism inherently links the gramophone to representations of these dramatic cultural upheavals. Many key works of Irish literary modernism—like those by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O’Casey—depend upon the gramophone for their ability to record Irish cultural traumas both symbolically and literally during one of the country’s most fraught developmental eras. In each work the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. In each work, too, the object seems virtually self-placed—less an aesthetic device than a “thing” belonging primordially to the text. The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. Thus, the gramophone points to a deeper connection between object and culture than we perceive if we consider it as only an image, enhancement, or instrument. This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-10
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Clemson University Press w/ LUP
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Clemson University Digital Press
ISBN:9781949979763

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Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

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Zan Cammack is a lecturer in the Department of English and Literature at Utah Valley University. Her research primarily focuses on studies of material culture in 19th and 20th-century literature. She has published on Elizabeth Bowen, G.B. Shaw, Lennox Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Jane Austen (the latter two publications are manifestations of deep fangirling of said authors). Her current work is situated at the intersection of material culture and gender studies, including work on female performance studies in Samuel Beckett’s plays and flapper fashion and British politics.

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'In [the] work, the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. [...] The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. [...] This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.'Journal of Modern Literature

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Irish Gramophone1. Gramophonic Trauma: Shattered Narratives and Undead Oralities2. Gramophonic Gendering: Phonographysteria and the Political Machine3. Gramophonic Violence: The Gramophones of the Irish Revolution4. Gramophonic Strain: Residual Tension in Post-War LiteratureCoda: Gramophonic Echoes