Technology In Irish Literature And Culture

Author : Margaret Kelleher,James O'Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009192453

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Technology in Irish Literature and Culture by Margaret Kelleher,James O'Sullivan Pdf

Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies—typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers—have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumptive habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of the present moment, examining the longer history of literature's interactions with the technological and exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with technology.

Author : Malcolm Sen,Julie McCormick Weng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009081559

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Race in Irish Literature and Culture by Malcolm Sen,Julie McCormick Weng Pdf

Race in Irish Literature and Culture provides an in-depth understanding of intersections between Irish literature, culture, and questions of race, racialization, and racism. Covering a vast historical terrain from the sixteenth century to the present, it spotlights the work of canonical, understudied, and contemporary authors in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and among diasporic Irish communities. By focusing on questions related to Black Irish identities, Irish whiteness, Irish racial sciences, postcolonial solidarities, and decolonial strategies to address racialization, the volume moves beyond the familiar frameworks of British/Irish and Catholic/Protestant binarisms and demonstrates methods for Irish Studies scholars to engage with the question of race from a contemporary perspective.

Author : Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 1846822912

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Science and Technology in Nineteenth-century Ireland by Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Pdf

This volume, exploring the worlds of science and technology in 19th-century Ireland and emanating from the 2009 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference, offers fascinating perspectives from science, literature, history, and archaeology.

Author : Zan Cammack
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949979770

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Ireland’s Gramophones by Zan Cammack Pdf

Because gramophonic technology grew up alongside Ireland’s progressively more outspoken and violent struggles for political autonomy and national stability, Irish Modernism inherently links the gramophone to representations of these dramatic cultural upheavals. Many key works of Irish literary modernism—like those by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O’Casey—depend upon the gramophone for their ability to record Irish cultural traumas both symbolically and literally during one of the country’s most fraught developmental eras. In each work the gramophone testifies of its own complexity as a physical object and its multiform value in the artistic development of textual material. In each work, too, the object seems virtually self-placed—less an aesthetic device than a “thing” belonging primordially to the text. The machine is also often an agent and counterpart to literary characters. Thus, the gramophone points to a deeper connection between object and culture than we perceive if we consider it as only an image, enhancement, or instrument. This book examines the gramophone as an object that refuses to remain in the background of scenes in which it appears, forcing us to confront its mnemonic heritage during a period of Irish history burdened with political and cultural turbulence.

Author : Paige Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881056

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Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing by Paige Reynolds Pdf

Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world. Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse.

Author : Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Elin Holmsten
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039118595

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Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture by Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Elin Holmsten Pdf

This collection of essays examines the theme of liminality in Irish literature and culture against the philosophical discourse of modernity and focuses on representations of liminality in contemporary Irish literature, art and film in a variety of contexts.

Author : Deirdre Flynn,Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319785509

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Representations of Loss in Irish Literature by Deirdre Flynn,Eugene O'Brien Pdf

This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding of the nature of loss, given its ability to access and express emotions, sensations, feelings, and the visceral and haptic areas of experience. Dealing with feelings and with sensations, poems, novels and drama can allow for cathartic expressions of these emotions, as well as for a fuller understanding of what is involved in loss across all situations. The main notion of loss being dealt with is that of death, but feelings of loss in the wake of immigration and of the loss of certainties that defined notions of identity are also analysed. This volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in Irish Studies, loss, memory, trauma, death, and cultural studies.

Author : Kathryn Conrad,Cóilín Parsons,Julie McCormick Weng
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654483

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Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism by Kathryn Conrad,Cóilín Parsons,Julie McCormick Weng Pdf

Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson. With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers’ engagement with innovations in science and technology. Taken together, the fifteen original essays in Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism map a new literary landscape of Ireland in the twentieth century. By focusing on writers’ often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns between revivalists, modernists, and late modernists that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.

Author : Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472520227

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Food and Architecture by Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe Pdf

Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination of creativity, intuition, taste, and science but have rarely been engaged in direct dialogue. Each of the four sections – Regionalism, Sustainability, Craft, and Authenticity – focuses on a core area of overlap between food and architecture. Structured around a series of 'conversations' between chefs, culinary historians and architects, each theme is explored through a variety of case studies, ranging from pig slaughtering and farmhouses in Greece to authenticity and heritage in American cuisine. Drawing on a range of approaches from both disciplines, methodologies include practice-based research, literary analysis, memoir, and narrative. The end of each section features a commentary by Samantha Martin-McAuliffe which emphasizes key themes and connections. This compelling book is invaluable reading for students and scholars in food studies and architecture as well as practicing chefs and architects.

Author : C. Lynch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137386540

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Cyber Ireland by C. Lynch Pdf

Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014755186

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Irish Literature and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lance Pettitt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 071905270X

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Screening Ireland by Lance Pettitt Pdf

Analysing historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a thematically-informed synthesis of influential research on Irish audio-visual culture.

Author : Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653066

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature by Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas Pdf

THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Author : Karl Fugelso,Carol L. Robinson
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843841568

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Medievalism in Technology Old and New by Karl Fugelso,Carol L. Robinson Pdf

Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to today's computer games. As medievalism is refracted through new media, it is often radically transformed. Yet it inevitably retains at least some common denominators with more traditional responses to the middle ages. This latest volume of Studies inMedievalism explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games, examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging from the sovereign ethics of empire in Star Wars to gender identity in on-line role playing. Medievalism in more conventional venues is also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of medievalism. CONTRIBUTORS: ALICIA C. MONTOYA, ALBERT D. PIONKE, GRETCHENKREAHLING MCKAY, CHENE HEADY, BRUCE C. BRASINGTON, STEFANO MENGOZZI, CAROL L. ROBINSON, OLIVER M. TRAXEL, AMY S. KAUFMAN, BRENT MOBERLY, KEVIN MOBERLY, LAURYN S. MAYER

Author : Michaela Schrage-Früh,Tony Tracy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588309

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Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture by Michaela Schrage-Früh,Tony Tracy Pdf

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression.