Excess in Modern Irish Writing - Spirit and Surplus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems, plays and fiction by a wide range of Irish authors are considered. These include works by Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr and Medbh McGuckian. The readings presented illustrate how Matthew Arnold's nineteenth-century idea of the excessive character of the Celt is itself exceeded within the modernity of twentieth-century Irish writing.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Release date:	March 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Michael McAteer
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	279
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-037412-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	3-03-037412-2
Barcode:	9783030374129

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