Taylor-Collins Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4962-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ‘dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare’s England.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor-Collins, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Remembering memory
Part I: Ghosts
1 ‘Go on from this’: J. M. Synge’s Playboy
2 ‘Remember me’: Hamlet, memory, and Leopold Bloom’s poiesis
3 ‘Someone wholly other’: John Banville’s Ghosts
Part II: Bodies
4 ‘[M]y genius for forgetting’: Samuel Beckett’s theatrical bodies
5 ‘Kate had herself sterilized’: O’Brien’s self-disciplining bodies
Part III: Land
6 ‘[R]ights of memory’: W. B. Yeats, surface, and counter-memory
7 ‘[D]ithering, blathering’: Seamus Heaney, the diseased word-hoard, and the Historian
Conclusion: ‘I disremember’
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Taylor-Collins is Senior Lecturer of English at Cardiff Metropolitan University