Excess in Modern Irish Writing

Spirit and Surplus
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-37412-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida and, more recently, Badiou. Poems, plays and fiction by a wide range of Irish authors are considered. These include works by Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Patrick Pearse, James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr and Medbh McGuckian.  The readings presented illustrate how Matthew Arnold’s nineteenth-century idea of the excessive character of the Celt is itself exceeded within the modernity of twentieth-century Irish writing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McAteer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction.- Part One: Mystical Excess.- Chapter Two: Excess as Spiritual Ecstasy: Yeats and Joyce.- Chapter Three: Oriental Excess: Wilde, Yeats, MacNeice.- Chapter Four: Transgressive Sacrifice: Pearse, Yeats, Carr.- Part Two: Material Excess.- Chapter Five: Money and Melodrama: Boucicault, Wilde, Shaw.- Chapter Six: Disposable Living: O’Casey, Beckett, Doyle.- Chapter Seven: Trashing Ulster: Patterson and Reid.- Part Three: Mythic and Linguistic Excess.- Chapter Eight: Mythic Excess: Finnegans Wake.- Chapter Nine: A-voiding the Subject: Bowen and Beckett.- Chapter Ten: Rhyming Away: Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, McGuckian.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael McAteer is Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Previously, he taught Irish writing at the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. His previous publications include Yeats and European Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Silence in Modern Irish Literature (ed.) (Brill, 2017).