Modernity And Postmodernity In A Franco Irish Context

Author : Eamon Maher,Grace Neville,Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080716882

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Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context by Eamon Maher,Grace Neville,Eugene O'Brien Pdf

French writers and intellectuals were to the forefront when it came to theorizing the concepts of modernity and postmodernity, and thus such a theme was considered appropriate for this, the second volume in the Studies in Franco-Irish Relations series. The postmodern Irish socio-cultural paradigm is interrogated through the lens of French thought. What is equally interesting is that Irish contexts can also help shed light on the French situation as the processes of secularisation and multicultural diversity, part of the French experience since the 1950s, begin to take root in a society that has become one of the most globalised in the Western world. The interchange and dialogue between the two cultures throws up a panoply of insights that have the capacity to be enriching for both societies.

Author : Eamon Maher
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 303911851X

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Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland by Eamon Maher Pdf

In the space of a few short decades, Ireland has become one of the most globalised societies in the Western world. The full ramifications of this transformation for traditional Irish communities, religious practice, economic activity, as well as literature and the arts, are as yet unknown. What is known is that Ireland's largely unthinking embrace of globalisation has at times had negative consequences. Unlike some other European countries, Ireland has eagerly and sometimes recklessly grasped the opportunities for material advancement afforded by the global project. This collection of essays, largely the fruit of two workshops organised under the auspices of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin and the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, explores how globalisation has taken such a firm hold on Irish society and provides a cultural perspective on the phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. The first examines various manifestations of globalisation in Irish society whereas the second focuses on literary representations of globalisation. The contributors, acknowledged experts in the areas of cultural theory, religion, sociology and literature, offer a panoply of viewpoints of Ireland's interaction with globalisation.

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408113462

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

A thorough and insightful study of the work of twenty-five important Irish playwrights.

Author : Alison O’Malley-Younger,John Strachan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443827454

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Ireland at War and Peace by Alison O’Malley-Younger,John Strachan Pdf

The essays in this collection examine Ireland at war and peace from the Revival period to the present day, examining key aspects of Irish literature and history—culturally rich but politically turbulent—from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Ireland at War and Peace examines important social, political and aesthetic contexts which have shaped modern Irish society and culture, from the First World War and the Easter Rising of 1916 through to the Troubles and beyond. A key focus is on the ideological and artistic significance of Irish culture in a wide sense; the volume includes essays on the cultural significance of commodity culture and advertising in Ireland, images of the child in Irish culture, the importance of the horse in the Irish imagination, and the manner in which narratives of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Irish uprising, execution and imprisonment informed Irish theatre both before and after the 1916 Uprising. The book’s dual focus is exemplified in its opening essays on Padraig Pearse as both rebel-rousing separatist polemicist and Volunteer leader, and on his related careers as dramatist, story writer and educationalist. Subsequent essays deal with Yeats and the Easter Rising, consumer culture in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the riotous reception afforded J. M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, and Samuel Beckett’s vexed relationship with his homeland. There are also important essays here on the contemporary Irish writers Seamus Heaney and Deirdre Madden. The focus of the collection is wide, ranging from canonical literary figures such as Joyce, Beckett, and Yeats, modern-day authors such as Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, through to popular-cultural phenomena from Dion Boucicault’s nineteenth-century melodrama Robert Emmet, to Alan Parker’s movie of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments and that great Irish sitcom Father Ted.

Author : Ruben Moi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004355118

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Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry by Ruben Moi Pdf

Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.

Author : Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815653721

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Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker by Eugene O'Brien Pdf

Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize–winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the most important Irish poet after Yeats and, at the time of his death, arguably the most famous living poet. For this reason, much of the scholarship to date on Heaney has understandably focused on his poetry. O’Brien’s new work, however, focuses on Heaney’s essays, book chapters, and lectures as it seeks to understand how Heaney explored the poet’s role in the world. By examining Heaney’s prose, O’Brien teases out a clearer understanding of Heaney’s sense of the function of poetry as an act of public intellectual and ethical inquiry. In doing so, O’Brien reads Heaney as an aesthetic thinker in the European tradition, considering him alongside Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, and Adorno. Studying Heaney within this theoretical and philosophical tradition sheds new and useful light on one of the greatest creative minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Peter Guy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443868990

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As Mirrors Are Lonely by Peter Guy Pdf

The Irish novel has demonstrated an ability to sample other forms and influences, to improvise and evolve in the light of changing circumstances. Peter Guy’s new study helps investigate the way in which Irish writers since the sixties have responded to these influences, re-examining their work through the theory of the French theorist Jacques Lacan. Focusing on the novelists John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick in a simultaneous reading, and applying a psychoanalytical theory which centers in particular on gender and family relations, this new study also covers a number of other complex issues, issues which span the claustrophobic and repressive atmosphere of the 1950s to the secular ahistorical Ireland of today.

Author : Catriona Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443879798

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Writing from the Margins by Catriona Ryan Pdf

The Irish short story tradition occupies a unique space in world literature. Rooted in an ancient oral storytelling culture, the Irish short story has underwent numerous transitions, from 19th century Anglo-Irish writers such as William Carleton through to the 20th century's groundbreaking impact of George Moore's The Untilled Field. George Moore's work inspired the next generation of Irish Catholic writers such as Joyce, Frank O'Connor and Benedict Kiely, who foregrounded the backbone of the ...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004685673

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Leaders in English Language Arts Education Research by Anonim Pdf

Leaders in English Language Arts Education Research contains autobiographical essays by leading English Language Arts scholars throughout the world. In this volume, English Language Arts is presented as a complex and porous discipline—intersecting with writing, literacy studies, multicultural/multilingual education, digital and multimodal literacies, critical and social justice pedagogies, teacher education, linguistics and second language learning, and, not least of all, subject English, including teaching literature and drama. Contributors are retired or current professors in the following countries: Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, South Africa, and the United States. ELA scholars often begin their careers as K-12 teachers and then become teacher-educators at universities; due to this, they work at the intersection of theory and practice throughout their careers. Therefore, this volume will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate English Language Arts Education students as well as to in-service English practitioners. This volume will also appeal to ELA researchers at all levels since it contains first-hand, personal narratives of well-established ELA researchers as they reflect on their own development as scholars.

Author : Lauren Clark,Colin Younger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443854115

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Border Crossings by Lauren Clark,Colin Younger Pdf

Borderlands, boundaries and frontiers are crucibles for diverse cultures and multiple alternative histories. Nowhere is this truer than in the debateable lands between nation states in what is commonly known as the British Isles. This collection takes the reader on an imaginative journey inside the borders, offering a fresh perspective on the liminality of these porous and contested terrains and the liminal peoples therein. Implicitly or explicitly, the contributors to this volume, in one way or another acknowledge that the term ‘borderland’ is imprecise, ambiguous and never neutral, and due to its liminal status, a crucible for multiple and competing identities. As the essays in this collection show, these borders don’t have to be geographical, but can extend to any cultural, psychic or social terrain which exists beyond or between accepted categories, power structures, nations or states. This collection concerns itself with Borders Theory in its multifarious manifestations from pre-history to the present day. Border Crossings draws together a number of key researchers in their respective fields and enables a dialogue between different disciplines and theoreticians. More generally, in its disciplinary and theoretical scope, the collection links with a number of other works, whilst its focus on England, Ireland and Scotland maintains its distinctiveness and addresses an area of comparative critical neglect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943230

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132656179

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Irish University Review by Anonim Pdf

A journal of Irish studies.

Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403938541

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The Contemporary Irish Novel by Linden Peach Pdf

This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers. The novels examined include works by John Banville, Jennifer Johnston, Roddy Doyle, Emma Donoghue, Seamus Deane, William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Joseph O'Connor, Patrick McCabe, Mary Morrissy, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. The Contemporary Irish Novel addresses themes such as ghosts and haunting, mimicry, obedience and subversion, the relocation and reinscription of identity, the mother figure, parent-child relations, madness, masculinity, self-harm, sexuality, domestic violence, fetishism and postmodernity. Drawing on a range of critical approaches including postcolonial, gender and psychoanalytic theory, Peach explores and celebrates the diversity of Irish fiction and suggests that the boundary between literature and theory is as permeable as that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134821709

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Postnationalist Ireland by Richard Kearney Pdf

The encroachment of globalization and demands for greater regional autonomy have had a profound effect on the way we picture Ireland. This challenging new look at the key of sovereignty asks us how we should think about the identity of a postnationalist' Ireland. Richard Kearney goes to the heart of the conflict over demand for communal identity - traditionally expressed by nationalism, and the demand for a universal model of citizenship - traditionally expressed by republicanism. In so doing, he asks us to question whether the sacrosanct concept of absolute national sovereignty is becoming a luxury ill afforded in the emerging new Europe. Kearney then takes us beyond the political with chapters on the influence of philosophers such as George Berkeley, John Toland and John Tyndall and looks at some of the myths in Irish poetry and nationhood. Postnationalist Ireland provides a recasting of contemporary Irish politics, culture, literature and philosophy and will appeal to students of these subjects and Irish studies in general.

Author : Ailbhe McDaid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319638058

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The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry by Ailbhe McDaid Pdf

This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture – migration and memory. From its starting point with the ‘New Irish’ generation of poets in the United States during the 1980s and concluding with the technological innovations of 21st-century poetry, this study spans continents, generations, genders and sexualities to reconsider the role of memory and of migration in the work of a range of contemporary Irish poets. Combining sensitive close readings and textual analysis with thorough theoretical application, it sets out the formal, thematic, socio-cultural and literary contexts of migration as an essential aspect of Irish literature. This book is essential reading for literary critics, academics, cultural commentators and students with an interest in contemporary poetry, Irish studies, diaspora studies and memory studies.