This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into
the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing
original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and
personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism,
Flannery's readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel
writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in
their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish
cultural and political history, including John McGahern, Derek
Mahon, Roger Casement, and Tim Robinson, among many others, enable
and invigorate the discipline of Irish cultural studies, and
international ecocriticism on the whole. This book addresses the
need to impress the urgency of lateral ecological awareness and
responsibility among Irish cultural and political commentators; to
highlight continuities and disparities between Irish ecological
thought, writing, and praxis, and those of differential
international writers, critics, and activists; and to establish
both the singularity and contiguity of Irish ecological criticism
to the wider international field of ecological criticism. With the
introduction of concepts such as ecocosmopolitanism, "deep"
history, ethics of proximity, Gaia Theory, urban ecology, and
postcolonial environmentalism to Irish cultural studies, it takes
Irish cultural studies in bracing new directions. Flannery
furnishes working examples of the necessary interdisciplinarity of
ecological criticism, and impresses the relevance of the Irish
context to the broader debates within international ecological
criticism. Crucially, the volume imports ecological critical
paradigms into the field of Irish studies, and demonstrates the
value of such conceptual dialogue for the future of Irish cultural
and political criticism. This pioneering intervention exhibits the
complexity of different Irish cultural and historical responses to
ecological exploitation, degradation, and social justice.
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