Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020
Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020
Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
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USDIrish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century's long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world. Amid these remarkable changes, culture on both sides of the border has emerged as a global phenomenon, one that both reflects and intervenes in rapidly changing contemporary conditions. This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period and demonstrates the value of Irish contemporary literature within anglophone and European traditions and as a body of work that has kept its eye trained on the particularities of the island and its inhabitants.
- Gives an authoritative overview of contemporary Irish literature in chapters that focus on texts, performances, institutions, historical conditions, and practices
- Situates Irish literature in a range of contexts relevant to larger understandings of the contemporary moment, a moment that is increasingly diverse, mobile, digital, and global
- Offers incisive readings of recent work by contemporary Irish writers and cultural practitioners
Reviews & endorsements
‘This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.’ Anthony Roche, Irish Times
‘These reckonings acutely register the 'future’s productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.’ Liam Harisson, Irish Studies Review
Product details
April 2020Hardback
9781108474047
448 pages
236 × 159 × 29 mm
0.75kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds
- Part I. Times:
- 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe NÃ Ghearbhuigh
- 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd
- 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert
- 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds
- 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon
- Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci
- Part II. Spaces:
- 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna
- 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner
- 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran
- 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams
- 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall
- Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan
- Part III. Forms of Experience:
- 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary
- 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter
- 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend
- 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois
- 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane
- Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills
- Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences:
- 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Nà Fhrighil
- 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald
- 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan
- 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt
- 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher
- Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.
