Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing examines the
tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and
literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first
century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical
acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these
works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary
tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But
this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers
from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade
modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy,
exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private
consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the
public world. Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives
of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to
embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of
material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the
ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability
that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to
flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression
that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The
writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien,
Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear
McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to
recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the
movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a
crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and
through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class
inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Paige Reynolds
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-888105-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-888105-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780198881056 |
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