The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation

by John Greaney

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350328464
• ISBN13: 9781350328464
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"