Machine generated contents note: 26. Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack's Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats's John Sherman / 1. Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism / Claire Connolly. 2. Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future and Celtic Modernity / Luke Gibbons -- 3. Waking from History: The Nation's Past and Future in Finnegans Wake / Jeremy Colangelo -- 4. W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism / Coilin Parsons -- 5. Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border / Maud Ellmann -- 6. Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism / Nels Pearson -- pt. II Heresies of Nationalism -- 7. `A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit': Precarious, Lost and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism / Margot Gayle Backus -- 8. Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration and the Unfinished Business of Modernism / Sarah L. Townsend -- 9. Ireland's Philatelic Modernism / Julieann Veronica Ulin -- 10. Modernism Against / For the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Postwar Taiwan / Shan-Yun Huang -- 11. Rage's Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde's Trivial Comedy / Kathryn Conrad -- pt. III Aesthetic Heresies -- 12. Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism / Eric Falci -- 13. Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Kelly Sullivan -- 14. The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland / Matthew Brown -- 15. `Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please': Cruiskeen Lawn, Dada and the Blitz / Catherine Flynn -- 16. Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform? / Vicki Mahaffey -- pt. IV Heresies of Gender and Sexuality -- 17. The Irish Bachelor / Ed Madden -- 18. `Purity, Piety, and Simplicity': Heretical Images of the Female Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism / T. J. Boynton -- 19. `Stolen fruit is best of all': The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane / Lauren Rich -- 20. `Stories Are a Different Kind of True': Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction / Sian White -- 21. Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain / Ailbhe Darcy -- pt. V Critical Heresies -- 22. `A form that accommodates the mess': Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett's Happy Days / Joseph Valente -- 23. Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction / Maureen O'Connor -- 24. Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity / Sarah E. McKibben -- 25. Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Transformative Heresy of Joy / Wendy J. Truran -- 26. Watery Modernism? Mike McCormack's Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats's John Sherman / Claire Connolly.
Summary:
Redefines Irish modernism as resistance to religious, sociopolitical and aesthetic orthodoxies Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies - cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological - that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
Series:
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
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