Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Of coast and cosmos: locating Irish expatriate modernism -- Ulysses, the sea, and the paradox of Irish internationalism -- "Forget! Remember!": Joyce's voices and the haunted cosmos -- Elizabeth Bowen's tenacious cosmopolitanism -- Crossings still: Irish interludes in Bowen's European novels -- "Haunt[ing] the waterfront": place and displacement in Echo's bones and Les nouvelles -- Beckett, setting, and cosmopolitical philosophy -- Epilogue : "On" .
Summary:
Nels Pearson uses the readings of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett to argue that both national and global concerns motivate Irish modernism simultaneously.
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