The Writings of Padraic Colum

'That Queer Thing, Genius'
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-39322-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours, and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum’s work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his children’s and adult texts.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whyte, Pádraic

O'Sullivan, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘With My Words, with My Words’                                                        

                     PÁDRAIC WHYTE AND KEITH O’SULLIVAN                                    

 

Chapter 1    Padraic Colum, Playwright                                                                      

                     CHRIS MORASH

 

Chapter 2    Folklore, Politics, and the Politics of Folklore                                        

                     EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN

 

Chapter 3    Colum’s Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism            

                     TOM WALKER

 

Chapter 4    ‘As a Saga and Not as Separate Pieces’: Simultaneity and Padraic Colum’s Poetry                                                                                        

                     JENNIFER MOONEY

 

Chapter 5    ‘Plutarch Lied’: Padraic Colum and the Biographical Subject                

                     MARGARET KELLEHER

 

Chapter 6    ‘Occasional, Even Casual’: Padraic Colum, Legacy Curation, and Short Fiction                                                                                                      

                     PAUL DELANEY

 

Chapter 7    Materialism, Commodification, and Alienation in Padraic Colum’s Short Stories                                                                                                      

                     ANINDITA BHATTACHARYA

 

Chapter 8    Padraic Colum: An Irish Immigrant Voice in American Children’s Literature                                                                                                  

                     MÉABH NÍ CHOILEÁIN

 

Chapter 9    Framing the Poetic Landscape of Padraic Colum’s The Golden Fleece                                                                                                               

                     KEITH O’SULLIVAN AND MAX BARRETT

 

Chapter 10  Rewriting Buile Suibhne: Storytelling and The Frenzied Prince          

            PÁDRAIC WHYTE

Über Autor(innen)

Pádraic Whyte is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MPhil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fulbright scholar whose publications include the co-edited volume Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), which won the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Edited Book Award, 2019.

Keith O’Sullivan is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, Dublin City University. He is also deputy chair of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature programme and co-director of the Centre for Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. He is a co-principal investigator on the Creative Europe G-Book projects (www.g-book.eu).