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Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our
time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing,
and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day.
Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political,
aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and
historical moments, and monuments, from the island's past and
present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund
Burke's political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about
national character; aspects of Joyce's and of Elizabeth Bowen's
relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the
representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns's fiction - these
topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a
volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care
about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one
of Irish literature's most renowned critics, have individually had
a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being
gathered together here for the first time between one set of
covers. Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 is an indispensable
collection from one of the most important voices in Irish
literature and culture.
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers
boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and
London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in
their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe,
emigre and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that
challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine
literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of
aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'.
However, after World War II, an assertive American literary
establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural
prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet
conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in accomplished readings
of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats,
T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and
Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of
the rise and fall of European and American empires, changing world
literary systems, and disputed histories of 'world literature'.
This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly
original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the
contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative
deals with the United States in a time of declining global
hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a thwarted and turbulent Global
South, and a European Union that has decisively reshaped Ireland in
the last half century. The author argues that in a late capitalist
world defined by volatile economic and cultural globalizations, the
Irish novel is struggling to imagine new ways to narrate the
country's relationship to the world capitalist system and to find
new place for Irish writing in the world literary system. Looking
at a rapidly-changing Ireland in a rapidly-changing international
order, Joe Cleary offers new readings of novels by Colm Toibin,
Anne Enright, Joseph O'Neill, Deirdre Madden, Mary Costello, Naoise
Dolan, Aidan Higgins, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan and Ronan
Bennett.
The story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in
the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and
accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists
not only helped to create a distinctive nationalist literature but
also changed the face of European and anglophone culture. This
Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction
and the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George
Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, as well as late
modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann
O'Brien, Mairtin O Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all appear here.
Significantly, however, this volume ranges beyond such iconic
figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women
modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and
the critical reception of modernism in Ireland.
The story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in
the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and
accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists
not only helped to create a distinctive nationalist literature but
also changed the face of European and anglophone culture. This
Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction
and the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George
Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats and James Joyce, as well as late
modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann
O'Brien, Mairtin O Cadhain and Francis Bacon, all appear here.
Significantly, however, this volume ranges beyond such iconic
figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women
modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish-language modernism and
the critical reception of modernism in Ireland."
This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the
historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish
culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest
sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and
theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern
Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth,
supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide
selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and
practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key
themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will
enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the
authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields -
provide stimulating essays that together amount to an invaluable
guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
This study offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.
This study offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.
This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the
historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish
culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest
sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and
theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern
Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth,
supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide
selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and
practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key
themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will
enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the
authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields -
provide stimulating new essays that together amount to an
invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
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