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OverviewThe island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicholas Allen (Endowed Professor in Humanities, Baldwin Professor in Humanities, University of Georgia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.628kg ISBN: 9780198857877ISBN 10: 019885787 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 05 November 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Maritime Yeats 2: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands 3: Coastal Joyce 4: Jack Yeats's Scrapbooks 5: At the Ebb Tide: Literary Cultures and Mid-Century Ireland 6: Heaney Offshore 7: Liquid Labyrinths: The North and the Sea 8: Wavy Rhythms: Atlantic Crossings in Fiction 9: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Poetry, and Water 10: Fluidity and Form in Hamilton, Banville, and Enright 11: Kevin Barry's Atlantic Drift 12: Into the Archipelago ConclusionReviewsAllen fuses Irish literature and his own thalassography into an interdependent essence. Quite an accomplishment. * Dan Maccarthy, Irish Examiner * Author InformationNicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Endowed Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia. A native of Belfast, he has published several books on Ireland and its literature, has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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