The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

Joe Cleary (Edited by)

9781107031418, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 August 2014

286 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.59 kg

'… remarkably successful … wide-ranging yet remarkably coherent, a notable achievement … Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

The story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists not only helped to create a distinctive nationalist literature but also changed the face of European and anglophone culture. This Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction and the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, as well as late modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all appear here. Significantly, however, this volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland.

1. Intellectual and aesthetic influences Jean-Michel Rabate
2. European, American, and imperial conjectures Joe Cleary
3. The Irish revival and modernism Ronan McDonald
4. Style and idiom Barry McCrea
5. W. B. Yeats and modernist poetry Laura O'Connor
6. James Joyce and the mutations of the modernist novel Emer Nolan
7. Modernist experiments in Irish theatre Ben Levitas
8. Visual modernisms Luke Gibbons
9. Women and modernism Anne Fogarty
10. Irish language modernisms Louis de Paor
11. Irish American modernisms Joe Cleary
12. Critical receptions of literary modernism Enda Duffy
13. Irish modernist imaginaries Michael Valdez Moses.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]