Ireland and transatlantic poetics :
essays in honor of Denis Donoghue /
edited by Brian G. Caraher and Robert Mahony.
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| Summary: | "Professor Denis Donoghue's lifetime of reading and teaching literature and of writing brilliantly and beautifully about our ways of reading Anglophone literary works reveals in strong profile a career of open, responsive acts of attention to the words, the strivings, and the dialogic soundings of other voices crucial not only to the preservation of articulate traditions but to the advancement of literary studies into fresh fields of discourse. Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics is not only a collection of essays in his honor, but also a collection that enjoins two linked strands of Denis Donoghue's critical and theoretical endeavors. Based upon a thorough reorganization and revision of some of the best papers and plenary lectures delivered at the symposium, "Transatlantic Poetics and the Discipline of Literature," held in June 2003 at Queen's University Belfast, the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this collection strives to position the critical work of Denis Donoghue in its local, regional, and transatlantic contexts in Part I and then track in Part II some of the implications of such critical work across the study of Anglophone literary modernism, modern poetics, and modern Irish poetry, drama, and fiction in a transatlantic context." ""Transatlantic poetics" is both a principal theme and the constructive burden of these essays; and the motive toward its articulation lies in the need and in the demand for cross-national, international, and post-nationalist comprehension of cultural relations and critical practices across modern Anglophone British, Irish, and North American literary developments, literary filiations, and literary history. Anglophone literary study needs to articulate ever more clearly the poetics of literary practices, including the cultural politics of literary histories and literary reading. An implication of the title is that modern literature and literary studies should neither be pursued nor pigeonholed exclusively as national or nationalist projects (for instance, strictly as American, British, Canadian, English, Irish, Northern Irish or Ultonian, Scottish, Welsh literature, and so on) or swallowed up in some topically related field or endeavor (such as cultural studies, gender or sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, identity politics). The editors of this book have facilitated a productive, structured discussion of the principal themes among well-respected senior and younger figures in the fields of Anglophone literary writing and literary studies but with particular reference to contexts for understanding modern and contemporary Irish writing. Ireland is an island, geographically a rather small one at that, yet its finest writers have insistently articulated its modern literary culture within a transatlantic neighborhood."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
©2007.
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| Notes: | Based on a reorganization and revision of some of the papers and plenary lectures delivered at the symposium, "Transatlantic Poetics and the Discipline of Literature," held in June 2003 at Queen's University Belfast, the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm more |
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Ireland and transatlantic poetics. Ireland and transatlantic poetics. |
| ISBN: | 9780874139723 0874139724 |
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