{"product_id":"9781350177369","title":"Irish Modernisms : Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIrish Modernisms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on previously unexplored theoretical gaps, limitations, and fresh avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism, this book interrogates marginalised and neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism's responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, this book uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn, to rethink Irish modernism's organising themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death, mourning. At the same time, cutting-edge work from queer theory and gender studies draws urgent attention to the too-often marginalised importance of women's writing and queer expression to the Irish \u003ci\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForegrounding Irish modernist interfaces between visual, literary, musical, dramatic, cinematic, epistolary and journalistic media, this book focuses on writers, artists and cultural figures such as Hannah Berman, Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Forrest Reid, Mary Davenport O'Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Ethel Colburn Mayne, Edward Martyn, Jane Seosamh Ó Torna, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain. At the same time, this volume asks how consideration of Irish modernism through the diverse genres and movements of these neglected and liminal figures compels us to reconsider the position of the “major (Irish) modernists” – such as Synge, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, O'Nolan, Beckett, MacGreevy, and Bowen – in this redrawn canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This varied and vibrant collection accomplishes two huge tasks: consolidating the field of New Irish modernisms and exploring hitherto unperceived objects (journalism, letters, films, comic strips, lost poems, scientific writing, etc.) along with less visible actors. It is bracing to read Joyce with Hannah Berman, Beckett's bilingualism with O'Nolan's and O'Cadhain's, or place W. B. Yeats next to Thomas McGreevy and Ethel Maye. Those alert chronicles redeem the fullness of past Irish cultural history: whatever was old or unmodern is here made “fresh and strange.”” —\u003ci\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIrish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the field of Irish modernism, impressive in its conception and remarkably fresh and timely despite engaging a field and a set of concepts that have been up for scholarly debate for quite some time… the joy of the chapters is their ability to approach (and invite a study of) Irish modernism from a bottom-up historical perspective, while interrogating the cultural capital that has accrued to the critical label. This is a powerful and original way of thinking through the paradox of a scholarly field that occupies the very centre of any Global Modernist canon yet remains profoundly (even proudly) local in its historical, political and linguistic self-identifications.” —\u003ci\u003eRuben Borg, Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350177369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40809940254926,"sku":"9781350177369","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_22eff350-59d0-4627-848d-1071697e2b4d.jpg?v=1642662605","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350177369","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}