Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Nicholas Allen, University of Georgia) Allen, Nicholas (Endowed Professor in Humanities, Baldwin Professor in Humanities

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The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-05
Mått164 x 242 x 25 mm
Vikt628 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198857877

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Nicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Endowed Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia. A native of Belfast, he has published several books on Ireland and its literature, has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council.

Introduction1: The Maritime Yeats2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands3: Coastal Joyce4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks5: At the Ebb Tide: Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland6: Heaney Offshore7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction9: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry, and Water10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift12: Into the ArchipelagoConclusion

In sum, this new study is excellently written, capacious in scope, thoroughly researched, and original in approach. It leaves some open strands of argument--from the role of Ireland in the racial dynamics of maritime empire to the potential linkages between Scottish and Irish writing in a devolved archipelago--that others will pick up, tracing their analysis back to Allen's watershed effort. All of which will be part of the lasting impact on Irish, ecocritical, modernist, and contemporary literary studies that Ireland, Literature and the Coast is likely to have.