Ireland, Literature, and the Coast

Seatangled
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-885787-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Natur & Tiere (Stillleben, Landschaften etc.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Maritime Yeats

- 2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands

- 3: Coastal Joyce

- 4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks

- 5: At the Ebb Tide: Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland

- 6: Heaney Offshore

- 7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea

- 8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction

- 9: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry, and Water

- 10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright

- 11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift

- 12: Into the Archipelago

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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.