Description
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
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Irish Modernist Afterlives in Space and Time
Modernist Afterlives and Interdisciplinarity
Section One Literature and Language
1. ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’: Women Novelists and the Spaces of Irish Modernism, 1930–32
2. ‘I Knew What It Meant / Not to Be at All’: Death and the (Modernist) Afterlife in the Work of Irish Women Poets of the 1940s
3. ‘Whatever Is Given / Can Always Be Reimagined’: Seamus Heaney’s Indefinite Modernism
4. James Joyce and the Lives of Edna O’Brien
5. Modernist Topoi and Late Modernist Praxis in Recent Irish Poetry (with Special Reference to the Work of David Lloyd)
6. ‘Amach Leis!’ (Out with It!): Modernist Inheritances in Micheál Ó Conghaile’s ‘Athair’ (‘Father’)
Section Two Institutions, Art and Performance
7. ‘Make a Letter Like a Monument’: Remnants of Modernist Literary Institutions in Ireland
The Cuala Press, Revivalism and Modernism
The Dolmen Press and Monuments to Modernism
The Dolmen’s Modernist Revival
Literary Institutions, the Local and the Global
8. Storm in a Teacup: Irish Modernist Art
9. ‘Particles of Meaning’: The Modernist Afterlife in Irish Design
The Conditions of Irish Modernity: Pioneering Modernism and the Nation-Building Project, 1914–39
The Modernist Afterlife in Irish Design: International and Vernacular Modernism 1933–79
10. Animal Afterlives: Equine Legacies in Irish Visual Culture
11. Choreographies of Irish Modernity: Alternative ‘Ideas of a Nation’ in Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and Ó Conchúir’s Cure
12. The Modernist Impulse in Irish Theatre: Anu Productions and the Monto
Afterword: The Poetics of Perpetuation
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