The Cambridge companion to Irish modernism
The Cambridge companion to Irish modernism
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爱尔兰现代主义的剑桥伴侣
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2016
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R. Finnigan
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throughout the early decades of the twentieth century Ireland became one of the leading contributors to the development of modernism. however, while numerous analyses focus on the broad concepts of modernism found in the works of w.B. Yeats, James Joyce and samuel Beckett, the impact and significance of Irish relationships with modernism remains a subject of critical neglect. Attendees of the Irish Modernism conference (2007) and readers familiar with Michael rubenstien’s Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (2010) and edwina Keown and Carol taaffee’s Irish Modernism: Origin, Contexts, Publics (2009) will be aware of a number of re-evaluations that have led to “Ireland [being] transformed from a footnote in the modernist canon to something of an exemplary case”.1 despite this a number of questions remain. For example, what is Irish modernism, how is modernism received in Ireland and what do revaluations of regional and national modernisms suggest about the connection between modernism and Ireland? In an attempt to answer these, and other questions, this volume, The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (2014), offers fresh and insightful perspectives on topics beyond modernism’s iconic Irish figures to establish new areas of scholarly debate. In his informative introduction, Joe Cleary begins by declaring “the story of Irish modernism constitutes one of the more remarkable chapters in the eventful history of european modernism” (1). seeking to “consolidate contemporary scholarship on Irish modernism with a view also to expanding its scope and ambition” (3), the collection aims to: