Irish Literature in Transition: 1980-2020: Volume 6

ISBN-13: 9781108474047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 448 str.

Eric Falci; Paige Reynolds

Opis

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

Recenzje

'These reckonings acutely register the 'future's productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.' Liam Harisson, Irish Studies Review

Spis treści

Introduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds; Part I. Times: 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd; 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert; 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds; 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon; Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci; Part II. Spaces: 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna; 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner; 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran; 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams; 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall; Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan; Part III. Forms of Experience: 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary; 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter; 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend; 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois; 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane; Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills; Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences: 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald; 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan; 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt; 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher; Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.