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Beyond realism : experimental and unconventional Irish drama since the revival
\"When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory set out in 1897 to create an Irish theatre, they expressed their openness to dramatic experimentation. However, the Abbey Theatre that was their legacy increasingly came to resist non-traditional dramaturgy. Ranging over a period of more than a century, the essays in Beyond Realism focus on theatre that has challenged what came to be perceived as the dominance of realism in Irish drama. The contributors demonstrate that, in the first half of the twentieth century, playwrights such as George Fitzmaurice, Sean O'Casey, and Jack B. Yeats produced unconventional theatre that challenged the norm of realism; they show that Irish dramatists since the 1980s, including Thomas Kilroy, Vincent Woods, and Patricia Burke Brogan further broadened the range of theatrical methods. The concluding essays on contemporary works that use multiple techniques, technology, and site-specific locations suggest that non-realistic, highly theatrical approaches are no longer the exception in Irish drama\"--Back cover.
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London and the Making of Provincial Literature
In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade. No one felt this more keenly than authors from Ireland, Scotland, and the United States who struggled to establish their own national literary traditions while publishing in the English metropolis. Authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper devised a range of strategies to transcend the national rivalries of the literary field. By writing prefaces and footnotes addressed to a foreign audience, revising texts specifically for London markets, and celebrating national particularity, provincial authors appealed to English readers with idealistic stories of cross-cultural communion. From within the messy and uneven marketplace for books, Joseph Rezek argues, provincial authors sought to exalt and purify literary exchange. In so doing, they helped shape the Romantic-era belief that literature inhabits an autonomous sphere in society.
London and the Making of Provincial Literaturetells an ambitious story about the mutual entanglement of the history of books and the history of aesthetics in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Situated between local literary scenes and a distant cultural capital, enterprising provincial authors and publishers worked to maximize success in London and to burnish their reputations and build their industry at home. Examining the production of books and the circulation of material texts between London and the provincial centers of Dublin, Edinburgh, and Philadelphia, Rezek claims that the publishing vortex of London inspired a dynamic array of economic and aesthetic practices that shaped an era in literary history.
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Extraordinary Aesthetes
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century.
This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book . The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.
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Women, writing, and language in early modern Ireland
This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that encompassed the key power‐struggles of early modern Ireland. This study brings to light the ways in which women contributed; they strove to be heard and to make sense of their situations, forging space for their voices in complex ways and engaging with native and new language‐traditions. The book investigates the genres in which women wrote: poetry, nuns' writing, petition‐letters, depositions, biography, and autobiography. It argues for a complex understanding of authorial agency that centres on the act of creating or composing a text, which does not necessarily equate with the physical act of writing. The Irish, English, and European contexts for women's production of texts are identified and assessed. The literary traditions and languages of the different communities living on the island are juxtaposed in order to show how identities were shaped and defined in relation to each other. The book elucidates the social, political, and economic imperatives for women's writing, examines the ways in which women characterized female composition, and describes an extensive range of cross‐cultural, multilingual activity.
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Joyce without Borders
This book addresses James Joyce's borderlessness and the ways
his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays
in this volume position borderlessness as a major key to
understanding Joycean poiesis, opening new doors and new
engagements with his work.
Contributors begin by exploring the circulation of Joyce's
writing in Latin America via a transcontinental network of writers
and translators, including José Lezama Lima, José Salas Subirat,
Leopoldo Marechal, Edmundo Desnoës, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and
Augusto Monterroso. Essays then consider Joyce through the lens of
the sciences, presenting theoretical interventions on posthumanist
parasitology in Ulysses ; on Giordano Bruno's coincidence
of opposites in Finnegans Wake ; and on algorithmic agency
in the Wake . Cutting-edge cognitive narratology is applied
to the \"Penelope\" episode.
Next, the volume features innovative essays on Joyce in relation
to early animated film and comics, engaging with animated film in
the \"Circe\" episode, Joyce's points of contact with George
Herriman's cartoon strip Krazy Kat , and structural
affinities between open-world gaming and Finnegans Wake .
The final essays focus on abiding human concerns, offering new
research on Joyce's creative use of \"spicy books\"; a Lacanian
consideration of \"The Dead\" alongside Katherine Mansfield's \"The
Stranger\" and Haruki Murakami's \"Kino\"; and a meditation on Joyce's
uncertainties about the boundary between life and death.
For Joyce, borders are problems-but ones that provided precious
fodder for his art. And as this volume demonstrates, they encourage
brilliant reflections on his work, from new scholars to leading
luminaries in the field.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D.
G. Knowles
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