The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation
The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and perverse in terms of their times and geographies. John Greaney explores this paradox to launch a metacritical study of the modes of inquiry used to define Irish modernism in the 21st century. Focused on works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, Flann O'Brien and Kate O'Brien, this book analyses how and if the complex representational strategies of modernist fictions provide a window on historical events and realities.
Dr John Greaney (Lecturer and tutor, University College Dublin and Maynooth University, Goethe University, Germany)
- Bloomsbury Academic
- 9781350328464
- 248 pages
- Paperback
- United Kingdom
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
