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Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020

Volume 6

Part of Irish Literature in Transition

Editors:
Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley
Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts

Eric Falci, Paige Reynolds, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, David Lloyd, Julia Obert, Patricia Kennon, Adam Hanna, Stefanie Lehner, James Moran, Ellen McWilliams, Anne Mulhall, Patrick Lonergan, Joe Cleary, Diarmaid Ferriter, Sarah Townsend, Christopher Langlois, Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly, Tom Lane, Clair Wills, Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Ronan McDonald, Barry Monahan, Stephen Watt, Margaret Kelleher

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Date Published: March 2020
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isbn: 9781108474047

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Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century's long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world. Amid these remarkable changes, culture on both sides of the border has emerged as a global phenomenon, one that both reflects and intervenes in rapidly changing contemporary conditions. This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period and demonstrates the value of Irish contemporary literature within anglophone and European traditions and as a body of work that has kept its eye trained on the particularities of the island and its inhabitants.
- Gives an authoritative overview of contemporary Irish literature in chapters that focus on texts, performances, institutions, historical conditions, and practices
- Situates Irish literature in a range of contexts relevant to larger understandings of the contemporary moment, a moment that is increasingly diverse, mobile, digital, and global
- Offers incisive readings of recent work by contemporary Irish writers and cultural practitioners
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'This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times
'These reckonings acutely register the 'future's productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.' Liam Harisson, Irish Studies Review
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- Date Published: March 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108474047
- length: 448 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds
Part I. Times:
1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd
3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert
4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds
5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon
Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci
Part II. Spaces:
6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna
7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner
8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran
9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams
10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall
Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan
Part III. Forms of Experience:
11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary
12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter
13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend
14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois
15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane
Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills
Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences:
16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil
17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald
18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan
19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt
20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher
Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.
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Editors
Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Falci is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010 (Cambridge, 2012) and the Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 (Cambridge, 2015), as well as a number of essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish and British poetry.
Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
Paige Reynolds, Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, is the author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle (Cambridge, 2007) and editor of Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture (2016). She has published essays on modernism, drama, and contemporary Irish writing and performance, and is editor of the forthcoming collection The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions.
Contributors
Eric Falci, Paige Reynolds, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, David Lloyd, Julia Obert, Patricia Kennon, Adam Hanna, Stefanie Lehner, James Moran, Ellen McWilliams, Anne Mulhall, Patrick Lonergan, Joe Cleary, Diarmaid Ferriter, Sarah Townsend, Christopher Langlois, Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly, Tom Lane, Clair Wills, Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Ronan McDonald, Barry Monahan, Stephen Watt, Margaret Kelleher