Marginal Irish Modernisms

该项目将重新审视爱尔兰近代史上一个关键时期的文化和政治经历--从1879年(陆战开始)到1939年(艾尔在第二次世界大战中采取中立立场，以及随着乔伊斯的《芬尼根守灵》的出版，现代主义的终结)。从承认支撑爱尔兰现代主义传统模式的假设出发，我们的主要目标是：1)重新配置现有的批判性景观，因为它目前在人文学科(例如文学和历史)、艺术(例如美术和音乐)和社会科学(例如社会学和政治)之间存在争议；2)建立对20世纪初以来爱尔兰文化经验的更长期、多学科的分析；3)尽可能广泛地传播我们的发现，并以影响公众对爱尔兰文化认同的看法的方式。该项目范围是多学科的，借鉴了包括英语、历史、政治和文化研究在内的一系列领域当前的辩论。当代舆论认为爱尔兰总体上与现代性，特别是与文化现代主义有着独特的关系。在这个记述中，这个国家产生了英语现代主义的一些主要声音(例如叶芝、乔伊斯、贝克特)。经过700年的殖民(传说)，爱尔兰是一个四分五裂的国家，它的文化疏远到了创伤的地步。因此，19世纪的爱尔兰社会已经是“现代主义”的了--通过它在政治和经济上的依附地位，以及像19世纪40年代的大饥荒这样的严重创伤事件的经历，已经倾向于异化和去中心化的过程，这些过程最终将成为国际现代主义运动的基石。作为对现代主义错位和分裂的回应，未来的所有事态发展(独立、移民、战争、丑闻等)。尽管这本书很有说服力，但它并没有公正地描述1879年后狂热的几十年间爱尔兰现代主义的丰富性和复杂性。许多具有潜在重要性的人物(如爱丽丝·米利根这样的次要作家)以及许多具有潜在相关性的思想(如无政府主义)通常被放在辩论的边缘。通过促进来自不同学科的学者之间的讨论，边缘爱尔兰现代主义将提高我们对如何从现代主义的角度来考虑爱尔兰历史上关键时期的一系列思想、实践、文本和事件的理解，以及这样的考虑如何反过来使当代学者能够重新解释现代主义本身。这一目标将主要通过19世纪末20世纪初在爱尔兰有研究兴趣的学者参与的一系列跨学科网络活动来实现。每一次活动都将有重要的国际人物参加，并鼓励和支持新的研究人员和研究学生的出席。活动将在国际地点举行(伦敦、都柏林、利物浦)。预计该项目一旦建立，将继续进入新的论坛，包括一系列专著和一份专门的期刊。在对学术领域的这一重大干预的同时，将决心创造机会，广泛公开传播研究成果。该项目将吸引一系列利益相关者，以增进他们对爱尔兰形成发展和爱尔兰身份形成的关键时期的理解，并挑战主导了太长时间的想法。这样的干预反过来将有助于重新想象爱尔兰随后的历史，并重新定位其目前的地位。

This project will undertake a re-examination of Irish cultural and political experience during a key period of the country's modern history - between 1879 (the commencement of the Land War) and 1939 (Eire's adoption of neutrality in World War II, and the 'end' of Modernism with the publication of Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'). Progressing from an acknowledgement of the assumptions that have underpinned conventional models of Irish Modernism, our principal aims are:1) to reconfigure the existing critical landscape as it is currently contested across disciplines in humanities (e.g. literature and history), the arts (e.g. fine art and music) and social sciences (e.g. sociology and politics);2) to establish a longer-term, multi-disciplinary analysis of Irish cultural experience since the early twentieth century;3) to disseminate our findings as widely as possible, and in ways that affect public perception of Irish cultural identity.The project is multidisciplinary in scope, drawing on current debates in a range of fields including English, History, Politics and Cultural Studies. Contemporary opinion regards Ireland as having a unique relationship with modernity in general, and with cultural Modernism in particular. In this account, the country produced some of the principal voices of Anglophone Modernism (e.g. Yeats, Joyce, Beckett). After seven hundred years of colonisation (the story goes) Ireland was a fractured country, its culture alienated to the point of trauma. Irish society in the nineteenth century was thus already 'Modernist' - already predisposed (through its politically and economically dependent status, as well as through the experience of profoundly traumatic events such as the Great Famine of the 1840s) to the processes of alienation and decentring that would in time come to constitute the cornerstones of the international Modernist movement.This model has largely determined the trajectory of debates on subsequent Irish history. It is as a response to Modernist dislocation and fragmentation that all future developments (independence, emigration, war, scandal, etc.) come into focus.Whilst compelling, this account does not do justice to the richness or the complexity of Irish Modernism during the fervent decades after 1879. Many figures of potential importance (e.g. 'minor' writers such as Alice Milligan) as well as many ideas of potential relevance (e.g. anarchism) are routinely relegated to the margins of debate.By promoting discussion between scholars from different disciplines, Marginal Irish Modernisms will improve our understanding of how a range of ideas, practices, texts and events from a crucial period in Irish history might be considered from the perspective of Modernism, and how such a consideration might in turn enable contemporary scholars to re-interpret Modernism itself.This aim will be accomplished primarily through a series of interdisciplinary networking events involving academics with research interests in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Key international figures will feature in each event and the attendance of new researchers and research students will be encouraged and supported. Events will be held in international locations (London, Dublin, Liverpool). It is anticipated that once established, the project will continue into new fora, including a monograph series and a dedicated journal.This major intervention in the academic field will be matched by a determination to create opportunities for wide public dissemination of research. The project will engage a range of stakeholders to advance their understanding of a key period in the formative development of Ireland and Irish identity, and to challenge ideas which have held sway for too long. Such an intervention will in turn contribute to the re-imagination of subsequent Irish history, and to the re-orientation of its current status.