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Title

Ireland and transatlantic poetics : essays in honor of Denis Donoghue / edited by Brian G. Caraher and Robert Mahony.

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Caraher, Brian.
• Mahony, Robert.
• Donoghue, Denis.

Description

247 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Professor Denis Donoghue's lifetime of reading and teaching literature and of writing brilliantly and beautifully about our ways of reading Anglophone literary works reveals in strong profile a career of open, responsive acts of attention to the words, the strivings, and the dialogic soundings of other voices crucial not only to the preservation of articulate traditions but to the advancement of literary studies into fresh fields of discourse. Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics is not only a collection of essays in his honor, but also a collection that enjoins two linked strands of Denis Donoghue's critical and theoretical endeavors. Based upon a thorough reorganization and revision of some of the best papers and plenary lectures delivered at the symposium, "Transatlantic Poetics and the Discipline of Literature," held in June 2003 at Queen's University Belfast, the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this collection strives to position the critical work of Denis Donoghue in its local, regional, and transatlantic contexts in Part I and then track in Part II some of the implications of such critical work across the study of Anglophone literary modernism, modern poetics, and modern Irish poetry, drama, and fiction in a transatlantic context." ""Transatlantic poetics" is both a principal theme and the constructive burden of these essays; and the motive toward its articulation lies in the need and in the demand for cross-national, international, and post-nationalist comprehension of cultural relations and critical practices across modern Anglophone British, Irish, and North American literary developments, literary filiations, and literary history. Anglophone literary study needs to articulate ever more clearly the poetics of literary practices, including the cultural politics of literary histories and literary reading. An implication of the title is that modern literature and literary studies should neither be pursued nor pigeonholed exclusively as national or nationalist projects (for instance, strictly as American, British, Canadian, English, Irish, Northern Irish or Ultonian, Scottish, Welsh literature, and so on) or swallowed up in some topically related field or endeavor (such as cultural studies, gender or sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, identity politics). The editors of this book have facilitated a productive, structured discussion of the principal themes among well-respected senior and younger figures in the fields of Anglophone literary writing and literary studies but with particular reference to contexts for understanding modern and contemporary Irish writing. Ireland is an island, geographically a rather small one at that, yet its finest writers have insistently articulated its modern literary culture within a transatlantic neighborhood."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• English literature > History and criticism
• English literature > Appreciation > North America
• English literature > American influences
• National characteristics, Irish, in literature
• English literature > History > Dublin > 20th century
• Criticism > Ireland > History > 20th century
• Modernism (Literature)
• Ireland > In literature

Note

• Based on a reorganization and revision of some of the papers and plenary lectures delivered at the symposium, "Transatlantic Poetics and the Discipline of Literature," held in June 2003 at Queen's University Belfast, the Linen Hall Library, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Speaking of Donoghue: A Preface for Transatlantic Poetics / Brian G. Caraher -- Pt. I. Poetics and Cultural Politics in Modern Dublin: Constructing Critically Ireland, Britain, America -- What to Do. How to Live / Colm Toibin -- From Donovan to Donoghue: English Studies at UCD / Mary Shine Thompson -- Another Bash in the Tunnel: James Joyce, the Envoy, and Irish Critical Reception / Bruce Stewart -- "We Irish": What Stalks through Donoghue's Irish Criticism / Colin Graham -- Pt. II. Modernism, Transatlantic Poetics, and the Cultural Politics of Anglophone Literary Language and Critical Desire -- Joyce, Leavis, and the Revolution of the Word / Denis Donoghue -- Figuring Irish Poetry / Matthew Campbell -- "Stitching and unstitching": Yeats, Bibliographical Opportunity, and the Life of the Text / Warwick Gould -- Absurdity, Extravaganza, and Irish Modernism / Nicholas Allen -- Transatlantic Transactions: Irish Players and American Reviewers / John P. Harrington -- A Poetics of Irish Urban Performance: Resisting International Expectations / Christopher Berchild -- Duppy Poetics: Yeats, Memory, and Place in Lorna Goodison's "Country, Sligoville" / Michael Malouf -- New Irish New York: Contemporary Irish Constructions of New York City / Mary McGlynn -- Getting it Wrong / Frank Kermode.

ISBN

• 9780874139723 (alk. paper)
• 0874139724 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007001071

OCLC

• 80180020
• ocm80180020
• SCSB-5377104

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries