Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020: Volume 6

Cambridge University Press, 3/12/2020
EAN 9781108474047, ISBN10: 1108474047

Hardcover, 448 pages, 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

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.