Modernist afterlives in Irish literature and culture /

edited by Paige Reynolds.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Reynolds, Paige, editor.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, 2016.
Series:Anthem Irish studies
Subjects:
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: x, 202 pages ; 24 cm.

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ISBN:9781783085736
1783085738
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Paige Reynolds
Literature and language. Anne Fogarty / "A world of hotels and gaols": women novelists and the spaces of Irish modernism, 1930
1932 ; Lucy Collins / "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; Leah Flack / "Whatever is given/can always be reimagined": Seamus Heaney's indefinite modernism; Ellen McWilliams / James Joyce and the lives of Edna O'Brien; Alex Davis / Modernist topoi and late modernist praxis in recent Irish poetry (with special reference to the work of David Lloyd); Sarah McKibben / "Aamach leis!" (out with it!): modernist inheritances in Micheál Ó Conghaile's "Athair" (Father)
Institutions, art and performance. Andrew A. Kuhn / "Make a letter like a monument": remnants of modernist literary institutions in Ireland; Rúisín Kennedy / Storm in a teacup: Irish modernist art; Linda King / "Particles of meaning": the modernist afterlife in Irish design
Maria Pramaggiore / Animal afterlives: equine legacies in Irish visual culture; Aoife McGrath / Choreographies of Irish modernity; Emilie Pine / The modernist impulse in Irish theatre: Anu Productions and the Monto
Afterword: David James / The poetics of perpetuation.