The Writings of Padraic Colum: ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’

Author:   Pádraic Whyte ,  Keith O’Sullivan
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Pages:   162
Publication Date:   10 May 2024
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This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours, and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum’s work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his children’s and adult texts.

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Author:   Pádraic Whyte ,  Keith O’Sullivan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032393223


ISBN 10:   103239322
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   10 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction: ‘With My Words, with My Words’ PÁDRAIC WHYTE AND KEITH O’SULLIVAN Chapter 1 Padraic Colum, Playwright CHRIS MORASH Chapter 2 Folklore, Politics, and the Politics of Folklore EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN Chapter 3 Colum’s Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism TOM WALKER Chapter 4 ‘As a Saga and Not as Separate Pieces’: Simultaneity and Padraic Colum’s Poetry JENNIFER MOONEY Chapter 5 ‘Plutarch Lied’: Padraic Colum and the Biographical Subject MARGARET KELLEHER Chapter 6 ‘Occasional, Even Casual’: Padraic Colum, Legacy Curation, and Short Fiction PAUL DELANEY Chapter 7 Materialism, Commodification, and Alienation in Padraic Colum’s Short Stories ANINDITA BHATTACHARYA Chapter 8 Padraic Colum: An Irish Immigrant Voice in American Children’s Literature MÉABH NÍ CHOILEÁIN Chapter 9 Framing the Poetic Landscape of Padraic Colum’s The Golden Fleece KEITH O’SULLIVAN AND MAX BARRETT Chapter 10 Rewriting Buile Suibhne: Storytelling and The Frenzied Prince PÁDRAIC WHYTE

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Pádraic Whyte is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MPhil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fulbright scholar whose publications include the co-edited volume Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), which won the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Edited Book Award, 2019. Keith O’Sullivan is Associate Professor and Head of the School of English, Dublin City University. He is also deputy chair of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature programme and co-director of the Centre for Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. He is a co-principal investigator on the Creative Europe G-Book projects (www.g-book.eu).

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